Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German academic
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Place of Birth: Nowy Dwór Gdański, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
About Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann
- Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann (February 14, 1811 in Fürstenau, near Tiegenhof, West Prussia (now Kmiecin, within Nowy Dwór Gdanski) – 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 Konigsberg, 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".
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