Paris 1809: GRASSMANN, gras'man, Hermann Gunther(1809-1877), German mathematician and philologist. He was born in Stettin, Prussia, on April 15, 1809. After studying theology and philology at Berlin University, Grassmann pursued a career as a secondary school teacher.
Overthrow. Defeatism and discontent with royal autocracy were rife in Sweden, and in the spring of 1809, Gustav was deposed by an officers' coup. His uncle, Duke Karl, was proclaimed King Charles XIII by the Diet, and a new liberal constitution was approved. Gustav and his family were sent into exile at the end of 1809. The ex-king led a threadbare, aimless, wandering existence, and his mind became somewhat deranged. He died in St. Gallen Switzerland, on Feb. 7, 1837.
His Mcmoircs militaires, his-toriques, ct politiques (2 vols., Paris 1809) were published after his death. Selected extracts of these memoirs were translated by M. W. E. Wright in Memoirs of the Marshal Count de Rochambeau, Relative to the War of Independence of the United States (1838). A statue of Rochambeau, the gift of the French Republic to the United States, was unveiled in Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. in 1902. |
