Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann
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Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (February 14, 1811 Fürstenau (now Kmecin, within Nowy Dwór Gdański
), January 7, 1881,Königsberg
) was a German orientalist, philologist with interests in Baltic languages
, and a mathematics historian.
He suggested the term "Baltic languages".
Nowy Dwór Gdanski
Nowy Dwór Gdański is a town in Poland, capital of Nowy Dwór Gdański County, located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, with 10,123 inhabitants .-Twin towns — Sister cities:Nowy Dwór Gdański is twinned with:-External links:*...
), January 7, 1881,Königsberg
Königsberg
Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...
) was a German orientalist, philologist with interests in Baltic languages
Baltic languages
The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe...
, and a mathematics historian.
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
- Ein deutsch-preußisches Vocabularium aus dem Anfange des 15. Jahrhunderts. In: Altpreußische Monatsschrift Bd. 4, Heft 5, Königsberg 1868