Karl Arthur Umlauf (1866-1945), a student of Friedrich Engel and Sophus Lie in Leipzig, was the first who approached the classification of the "groups of rank zero", in his thesis (1891). These are called nilpotent Lie algebras nowadays, and their classification is still an open problem.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Umlauf

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