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Hermann Günther Grassmann (April 15, , Stettin (Szczecin) – September 26, , Stettin) was a German polymath, renowned in his day as a linguist and now admired as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, neohumanist, general scholar, and publisher.

His mathematical work was not recognized in his lifetime.

Biography

Grassmann was the third of 12 children of Justus Günter Grassmann, an ordained minister who taught mathematics and physics at the Stettin Gymnasium, where Hermann was educated.

Hermann often collaborated with his brother Robert.

Grassmann was an undistinguished student until he obtained a high mark on the examinations for admission to Prussian universities. Beginning in , he studied theology at the University of Berlin, also taking classes in classical languages, philosophy, and literature.

He does not appear to have taken courses in mathematics or physics.

Although lacking university training in mathematics, it was the field that most interested him when he re