Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann
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]
Works
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- ^ Moritz Cantor, "Nesselmann: Georg Heinrich Ferdinand". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 445.
- ^ ADB:Nesselmann, Ferdinand In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, S. 445 f.
- ^ Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development edited by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba
- ^ The Baltic by Michael North
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- 1811 births
- 1881 deaths
- People from Nowy Dwór Gdański County
- People from West Prussia
- Balticists
- 19th-century German mathematicians
- German philologists
- German orientalists
- 19th-century German writers
- 19th-century German male writers
- University of Königsberg alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Königsberg
- German male non-fiction writers
- Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia