# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-grassmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:34:53.949Z

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name: "Hermann Grassmann"
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description: "Hermann Günther Grassmann was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher. His mathematical work was little noted until he was in his sixties. His work preceded and exceeded the concept which is now known as a vector space. He introduced the Grassmannian, the space which parameterizes all k-dimensional linear subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space V. In linguistics he helped free language history and structure from each other."
tagline: "German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)"
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birthDate: "1809-04-15"
deathDate: "1877-09-26"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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