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To the author it has always been a necessity, on studying a book, to imagine the author of the book alive before him.He therefore obtained a picture of him and strove to learn enough of the course of his life to be able to judge the course of his development. The author assumes a like necessity with many of his readers; he has therefore, in this first volume, included his picture1 and in the following offers the reader a brief survey of the course of his development.
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Petsche, HJ., Lewis, A.C., Liesen, J., Russ, S. (2011). Life history of Robert Grassmann, written by himself (1890). In: Petsche, HJ., Lewis, A., Liesen, J., Russ, S. (eds) From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0405-5_2
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