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General. Entry into the circle of new colleagues in Leipzig was not easy for me or my family (The semester started on 17 October 1887, and Ostwald gave his introductory lecture entitled “Energy and its transformation” (“Die Energie und ihre Wandlung”) on 23 November 1887.). We’d been used to quite different social manners and customs and we had no German relatives or friends who might have introduced us to the mores of life in a German university. The short acquaintanceships I’d made on my journeys had been merely ephemeral personal interactions and so we were rather foreign when we came to Leipzig. In many ways we stayed foreigners for the entire 19 years of our stay.
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The semester started on 17 October 1887, and Ostwald gave his introductory lecture entitled “Energy and its transformation” (“Die Energie und ihre Wandlung”) on 23 November 1887.
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In 1887/88 the Leipzig University had 68 full Professors, 37 of whom were members of the Philosophical Faculty.
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“Geheimrat” (Privy councillor) was a title given to distinguished officials, including Professors. It was abandoned after the fall of the German Empire in 1918.
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“Sitzungsberichte der Königlich-sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften” was published from 1849 to 1917.
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Ostwald refers here primarily to Wundt’s 10-volumes series entitled Völkerpsychologie, Engelmann, Leipzig, 1904. Later editions were from Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart.
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Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart.
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Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald.
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Ostwald Wo (1898/99) Z Naturwiss 72:49–86. “Experimental studies of the larvae of phryganeidae” (“Experimentaluntersuchungen über den Körperbau der Phryganeidenlarven”).
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It is highly probable that Ostwald probably refers to Georg Loeschke, who published several interpretations of Greek reliefs and vase paintings while in Dorpat.
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Ostwald is mistaken. “Thyestes” is a drama by Seneca.
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Jack, R.S., Scholz, F. (2017). The Leipzig Circle. In: Jack, R., Scholz, F. (eds) Wilhelm Ostwald. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46955-3_18
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