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Letting go. Though I did not permit my work as editor to interfere with my official duties, I still had the feeling that this, together with my other scientific work, was loosening my ties to the professorship in Riga. Though I’d managed to communicate my urge to work to my assistants and they began to produce useful results, there was little chance of getting any useful help from the students. However, there were no “Privat dozenten” and the half educated students went straight from their exams to conventional jobs. Only one, J. Spohr, the son of well off parents, who was therefore not dependent on earning a salary, worked for a longer time as a volunteer with me and produced quite a lot of work which brought us forward.
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“Privatdozenten” are senior scientists who had the formal right to teach.
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For the details of this conflict see Part II, Chapter 3.
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An amusement park.
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The chemist, whose name Ostwald discreetly conceals, was Carl Senhofer.
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Germania is a personification of the German nation.
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Jack, R.S., Scholz, F. (2017). The Appointment in Leipzig. In: Jack, R., Scholz, F. (eds) Wilhelm Ostwald. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46955-3_13
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