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  Caspar Wessel
Caspar Wessel, (1745 - 1818) Norwegian-Danish mathematician, born in Jonsrud, Vestby, Akershus, Norway.
Wessel's priority to the idea of a complex number as a point in the complex plane is today universally recognised.
Caspar Wessel's elder brother, Johan Herman Wessel was a major name in Norwegian and Danish literature.
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Johan Herman (three years older than Caspar) became a poet and is the only one of the Wessel children to have their own entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica (although Caspar is mentioned in three of the mathematics articles).
Wessel's fame as a mathematician rests solely on this paper, which was published in 1799, giving for the first time a geometrical interpretation of complex numbers.
Tetens encouraging Wessel, he could not have realised its importance for otherwise he certainly could have translated it from Danish to German and thus ensured for Wessel the world-wide fame as a mathematician which he has not achieved until very recent times.
www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Wessel.htm   (1514 words)

  
 Wessel biography
Work which had originally been intended to provide Wessel with the financial support to complete his university course had become such a major undertaking that there was not enough time left for him to study.
In fact Wessel's paper was not noticed by the mathematical community until 1895 when Juel draw attention to it and, in the same year, Sophus Lie republished Wessel's paper.
One can only suppose that, despite Tetens encouraging Wessel, he could not have realised its importance for otherwise he certainly could have translated it from Danish to German and thus ensured for Wessel the world-wide fame as a mathematician which he has not achieved until very recent times.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Wessel.html   (1631 words)

  
 Schulers Books (Poems and Songs - 41/44)
Johan Sverdrup (1816-1892) was the greatest political leader and statesman of Norway in the nineteenth century, and left the deepest traces in all its recent history.
He settled in Laurvik in 1844 as a lawyer, was soon active in municipal politics, laboring for the interests of the working-class, was elected to the Storting in 1851.
The fourteenth stanza refers to the Finnish Swedish poet, Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877), whose lyric, ballad, and epic genius was of national importance for Sweden.
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 Johan Herman Wessel Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Johan Herman Wessel is recognized as a major literary figure both in the literature of Norway (since he was born a Norwegian) and in that of Denmark (since he settled permanently in Copenhagen and wrote exclusively in Danish).
This attitude may be a pose, but it is a fact that Wessel wrote only one successful play for the theater and.....
Johan Herman Wessel from Dictionary of Literary Biography.
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 Skoletorget/Om Wessel
Johan Herman Wessel ble født i Jonsned nær Vestby i Akershus i 1745.
Wessel gikk på Latinskolen i Oslo, og som vanlig var på den tiden reiste han da han var ferdig (1761) til København for å studere videre ved universitetet der.
Ingen av disse er imidlertid av samme kvalitet som Wessels hovedverk, og utmerker seg heller ikke i forhold til middelmådige verker av andre diktere på denne tiden.
www.skoletorget.no /abb/nor/Dikt/Wessel_om.htm   (665 words)

  
 Johan Herman Wessel - Wikipedia
Wessel tok aldri avsluttande eksamen ved universitetet i København.
Johan Herman Wessel utmerka seg tidleg framfor dei andre i Det norske selskab.
I mange av dei verka han har skrive, har Wessel laga ei humoristisk ramme rundt eit alvorleg tema.
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 wesselman
Johan Bernard's month and year of birth, year of emigration, wife's first name and son's name were noted on the 1900 census.
Johan Gerhard's parents' names and his age (27) were on his marriage record at St Mary of Victories parish.
Additionally, Elisabeth Wessels was godmother in 1853 for a child of Johan Bernard Wessles and Maria Adelheid Kalkmann.
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 MavicaNET - Wessel, Johan Herman (1742-85)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Norwegian-born Danish writer and wit, known for his epigrams and light verse and for a famous parody of neoclassical tragedy.
Johan Herman Wessel ble født og vokste opp i Vestby i Akershus, og hans barndomshjem er nå fredet. Etter et opphold på Katedralskolen i Christiania, reiste Wessel i likhet med mange andre unge menn til København for å studere.
Her var Johan Herman Wessel en ledende skikkelse, sammen med Johan Nordahl Brun, Claus Frimann, Edvard Storm og Jens Zetlitz.
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 Johan Herman Wessel - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The traditional restaurant ''Wesselstuen'' in Bergen, Norway contains amny of his works as decorations.He was born and raised in Vestby, Akershus, Norway, son of a priest, and was the elder brother of mathematician Caspar Wessel.
The style of Wessel is deliberate elaborate and digressive and at the same time eeegant and witty.
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 Fadern (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I think it is no more than a pale imitation of the very funny CLASSICAL FRENCH TRAGEDY "Love Without Stockings" written in the late 18th century by the Norwegian writer Johan Herman Wessel.
She definitely wants Johan, but he has a great handicap: he has no stockings, a necessary constituent for the wedding ceremony.
Strindberg wants us to believe that this is a more rational and praiseworthy motive for murdering Bertha, than Johan's motive for killing himself.
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 Samlaget - Gjennom språket
Den største dikteren av dem var Johan Herman Wessel.
De fikk en sønn, men mye tyder på at Wessel ikke var noen god ektemann.
I en virkelig tragedie ender det dårlig, i Wessels skuespill tar for sikkerhets skyld alle personene på scenen livet av seg.
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 Johan Herman Wessel
Den danske Literaturs Historie fra dens Begyndelse til vore Dage.
Johan Herman Wessel, Skønlitterært forfatterleksikon 1850-1900, Litteraturpriser ved Niels Jensen
Johan Herman Wessel, Kunstnere i Akershus, Asker Museum
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 (WESSEL, Anne Margrethe Dorothea - WESSEL, Theodor )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
WESSEL, Anne Margrethe Dorothea (8 Jun 1804 - 11 Mar 1887)
WESSEL, Johan Herman (9 May 1884 - 1913)
WESSEL, Sigrid (31 Jul 1867 - 3 Oct 1893)
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 Johan Herman Wessel - Kalliope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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