ABSTRACT
Born in Vienna in 1906, Gustav Bergmann received his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1928. At about this time, he began attending the meetings of the famous Vienna Circle, along with two other young mathematicians, Kurt Gödel and Karl Menger. In a chapter on the Wiener Kreis in America, Herbert Feigl (1969) noted that the Circle was greatly enriched by their participation. Sometime during the next 7 years, Bergmann worked for a period in Berlin, as assistant to Albert Einstein in the mathematical development of his theories. He returned to Vienna where he took a juris doctor degree in 1935. He practiced corporation law for a while before the Nazi threat forced his departure to the United States in 1938. He was then 32.
