Ernst Leonard Lindelöf

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf was a Finnish mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology. Lindelöf spaces are named after him. He was the son of mathematician Lorenz Leonard Lindelöf, whose chair he would eventually succeed through his cousin Edvard Rudolf Neovius, and brother of the philologist Uno Lorenz Lindelöf. He founded the Finnish school of function theory, which achieved lasting international renown.