Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann

{{Short description|German orientalist, philologist and mathematics historian}}

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

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 Königsberg, where in 1859 he became a full professor of Arabic and Sanskrit.[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Nesselmann,_Ferdinand ADB:Nesselmann, Ferdinand] In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, S. 445 f.[https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&dq=%22Nesselmann%2C+Georg+Heinrich+Ferdinand%22&pg=PA495 Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development] edited by Joseph W. Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba

In his book "Die Sprache der alten Preußen" (The language of the Old Prussians, 1845), he suggested the term "Baltic languages".[https://books.google.com/books?id=OaiZBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Nesselmann%22+%22Baltic+languages%22&pg=PT10 The Baltic] by Michael North