Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann
Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann 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", he suggested the term "Baltic languages".Works
- ', G. Reimer, Berlin 1842
- ', Gebrüder Bornträger, Königsberg 1851
- ', Dümmler, Berlin 1853
- Thesaurus linguae prussicae, 1873, Reprint 1969
- Die Sprache der alten Preußen an ihren Überresten erläutert, 1845 Berlin: Reimer
- '. In: Altpreußische Monatsschrift Bd. 4, Heft 5, Königsberg 1868
