Georg_Heinrich_Ferdinand_Nesselmann

Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann

Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann

German orientalist, philologist and mathematics historian

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.[1]

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.[2][3]

In his book "Die Sprache der alten Preußen" (The language of the Old Prussians, 1845), he suggested the term "Baltic languages".[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Moritz Cantor, "Nesselmann: Georg Heinrich Ferdinand". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 445.
  2. [2]
    ADB:Nesselmann, Ferdinand In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, S. 445 f.
  3. [3]
    Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development edited by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba
  4. [4]
    The Baltic by Michael North
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