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Hermann Graßmann: Roots and Traces

Hans-Joachim Petsche, and al, editors
Publisher: 
Birkhäuser
Publication Date: 
2009
Number of Pages: 
256
Format: 
Hardcover
Price: 
69.95
ISBN: 
9783034601542
Category: 
Anthology
[Reviewed by
P. N. Ruane
, on
03/18/2010
]

This volume is a complement to Petsche's biography of Grassmann. It contains previously unpublished letters and other documents of biographical interest.

Introduction.- Justus Günther Graßmann, the father.- Friedrich Heinrich Gotthilf Graßmann, the uncle and stepfather of Robert Graßmann.- Robert Graßmann, the brother.- Hermann Günther Graßmann.- Hermann Graßmann the Younger, the son.- Three remarkable students of Hermann Graßmann: the Indologist Richard von Garbe, the philosopher Paul Carus, the musicologist Gustav Jacobsthal.- Notes.- Name index