Nelson, Leonard, 1882-1927

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Leonard Nelson was a German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist. He devised the Grelling–Nelson paradox in 1908 and the related idea of autological words with Kurt Grelling. Leonard Nelson was the son of lawyer Heinrich Nelson and artist Elisabeth Lejeune Dirichlet, granddaughter of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and descendant of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Nelson married his wife, Elisabeth Schemmann.
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referencedIn Socialist Vanguard Group, 1929 - 1985 Modern Records Centre
referencedIn Papers of the Society for the Furtherance of Critical Philosophy, 1940-1969 Modern Records Centre
referencedIn Otto Meyerhof Collection, 1904-1963 Leo Baeck Institute Archives
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Berlin 16 DE
Göttingen 06 DE
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Birth 1882-07-11

Death 1927-10-29

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