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Once again contrast marked the passing of time: The weekend following the burial of Gans on May 8, 1839, the king had signed Dirichlet’s appointment as Ordinary Professor Designate, and Humboldt could report to Dirichlet a few days later that Altenstein already had the appointment back from the court. The faculty was informed within a month. The appointment had become effective on May 11.
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Gray, J. J. 1979/80.
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Jacoud 2010.
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Lützen 1990:53; also see Demidov 1983, referred to in Lützen 1990:54.
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Lützen 1990:54–55.
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Lützen 1990, especially in Chapters 2 and 3, contains a detailed account of Libri matters, including those pertaining to Dirichlet.
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Lützen 1990:55.
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In the revolutionary year 1848, when Guizot, by this time in the Department of Foreign Affairs, lost his job, Libri was ready. He left for England, shipped some 30,000 books and manuscripts there, and was well received across the Channel, where feelings of nationalism overrode possible doubt, and where even Augustus DeMorgan treated him as an innocent victim of political persecution and French intrigue. In 1850, Libri was convicted of theft in France. He sold off books and manuscripts in England as needed for funds. There were two highly publicized auctions in the 1860s, and the French government negotiated for the return, through purchase, of a certain number of items. Others would continue to surface well into the twentieth century. Libri himself moved back to Italy where he died. For details, see Lützen 1990. In recent years, more news items concerning stolen materials have appeared, along with book-length works on Libri.
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Harnack 1900, 1:776.
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Davis and Merzbach 1994:143.
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Ahrens, W., ed. 1907:98–100.
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Königsberger 1904:308–9.
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Biermann 1959a:72.
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This presentation (1843b) is recorded by title only in the Monatsberichte for the year 1843.
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Ahrens, W., ed. 1907:106ff. contains various excerpts of Jacobi’s letters from Italy, including one telling of this episode.
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Königsberger 1904:315.
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Königsberger 1904:315.
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Königsberger 1904:326–29.
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Merzbach, U.C. (2018). Expanding Interactions. In: Dirichlet. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01073-7_10
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