Robert von Zimmermann

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Robert von Zimmermann or Robert Zimmermann (2 November 1824, Prague – 1 September 1898, Prague) was an Austrian-Czech philosopher.

The mathematician and philosopher, Bernard Bolzano, entrusted his unfinished work, Grössenlehre ("Theory of Quantity", a philosophical foundation for mathematics), which had not been completed at the time of his death in 1848, to von Zimmermann who was 24 years old. Zimmermann had been a student of Bolzano's. Since Zimmermann's interests were more in the area of philosophy as he had been appointed to the chair of philosophy at the University of Prague in 1852, he didn't do much with Bolzano's papers. Most of the remaining manuscripts stayed in Zimmermann's possession until 1882 when he gave them to the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien).O'Connor, J.J.; Robertson E.F., [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bolzano_manuscripts.html "Bernard Bolzano's manuscripts"], University of St. Andrews, The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

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Robert von Zimmermann taught at the University of Vienna from 1861.[https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_kunstgeschichte/Bilder_IKG/Bilder_Institutsarchiv/karl-johns-schlosser-trans-wienerschule-revised.pdf "Julius von Schlosser, The Vienna school of the history of art – review of a century of Austrian scholarship in German], p. 26. (Die Wiener Schule der Kunstgeschichte translated into English and edited by Institutsarchivar Karl Johns from: Mitteilungen des österreichischen Instituts für Geschichtsforschung Ergänzungs-Band 13, Heft 2, Innsbruck: Wagner 1934) One of his doctoral students was Kazimierz Twardowski.