Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - MathematicsGenderMaleHistoryEducated in Germany, Behrend pursued mathematical research at Cambridge, Zurich, Prague and finally in London, where he was detained at the outbreak of war and sent to Australia. After a period of internment at Tatura, he was appointed to tha Mathematical Department as a tutor in 1942. He became Associate Professor in 1954 and died in 1962.