## Type - Λ ## Data ### Published one paper and disappeared > After his 1924 paper, Schönfinkel published nothing more on combinators. > In fact only one other paper bears his name: \[Bernays and Schönfinkel, 1928\], > on certain special cases of the Entscheidungsproblem. > Both papers were prepared for publication largely by helpful colleagues: > the earlier one by Heinrich Behmann and the later by Paul Bernays. > -The Dynamic Read-Writable Free Encyclopedic Repository of the Modern State of Human Knowledge - [A Little Closer to Finding What Became of Moses Schönfinkel, Inventor of Combinators](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/a-little-closer-to-finding-what-became-of-moses-schonfinkel-inventor-of-combinators/) ### Said to be mentally ill and in a sanatorium > By 1927, he was said to be mentally ill and in a sanatorium \[Curry, 1927, p.3\], > \[Kline, 1951, p.47\]. Alexander Kuzichev in Moscow relates that Schönfinkel's > later years were spent in Moscow in hardship and poverty, helped by a few > friends, and he died in a hospital there in 1942 following some years of illness. > After his death, wartime conditions forced his neighbours to burn his > manuscripts for heating. > -The Dynamic Read-Writable Free Encyclopedic Repository of the Modern State of Human Knowledge