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Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann

1811 – 1881

German academic

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Lived 1811 – 1881 (aged 69). Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann was a German mathematician, indologist, arabist, historian of mathematics, university teacher and philologist.

Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (February 14, 1811 in Fürstenau, near Tiegenhof, West Prussia (now Kmiecin, within Nowy Dwór Gdański) – January 7, 1881 in Königsberg) was a German orientalist, a philologist with interests in Baltic languages, and a mathematics historian.

At the University of Königsberg he studied mathematics under Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi and Friedrich Julius Richelot, and oriental philology under Peter von Bohlen. In 1837 he received his PhD at Königsberg, where in 1859 he became a full professor of Arabic and Sanskrit.

In his book "Die Sprache der alten Preußen" (The language of the Old Prussians, 1845), he suggested the term "Baltic languages".

Works

Versuch einer kritischen Geschichte der Algebra, G. Reimer, Berlin 1842 Wörterbuch der littauischen Sprache, Gebrüder Bornträger, Königsberg 1851 Littauische Volkslieder, gesammelt, kritisch bearbeitet und metrisch übersetzt, Dümmler, Berlin 1853 Thesaurus linguae prussicae, 1873, Reprint 1969 Die Sprache der alten Preußen an ihren Überresten erläutert, 1845 Berlin: Reimer Ein deutsch-preußisches Vocabularium aus dem Anfange des 15. Jahrhunderts. In: Altpreußische Monatsschrift Bd. 4, Heft 5, Königsberg 1868

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University of Königsberg
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German academic (1811-1881)

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Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann was born on 24 February 1811 in Nowy Dwór Gdański.

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Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann died on 7 January 1881 in Königsberg.

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Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann was a mathematician, indologist, arabist, historian of mathematics, university teacher and philologist.

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Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann was German.

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