Jakub Heilpern
Chess Player
1850 – 1910
Who was Jakub Heilpern?
Jakub Heilpern was a Polish chess master.
Born into a Jewish family near Warsaw, he was educated in a high school gymnasium in Warsaw, studied in ETH Zurich in 1870–72 and graduated from Technical University of Munich in 1874. After the study, he worked in Bavaria, among others in Süddeutsche Brückenbau A.G. In 1879, he returned to Poland, and worked as an engineer at the Warsaw-Vienna Railway.
He tied for 5-6th in the 2nd Warsaw City Chess Championship. Heilpern won a match against Jean Taubenhaus at Warsaw 1887.
Since 1902, he was a chief editor of Przegląd Techniczny in Warsaw. He died in a health resort at Gardone Riviera in Italy.
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