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 Konigsberg, 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

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

gollark: I don't know if it can "think" because that's quite poorly defined. I do know that it can do some amount of logical and common-sense reasoning and has very good language abilities.

gollark: <@267332760048238593> "Manages charts"?

gollark: This is also "behavior".

gollark: What?

gollark: We're pretty general intelligences, but there are some things we can't really do or are extremely bad at.

References

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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[1] Moritz Cantor, "Nesselmann: Georg Heinrich Ferdinand". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 445.

[2] ADB:Nesselmann, Ferdinand In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, S. 445 f.

[3] Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development edited by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba

[4] The Baltic by Michael North