Nelson, Leonard, 1882-1927
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Leonard Nelson was a German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist. He devised the Grelling–Nelson paradox in 1908 and the related idea of autological words with Kurt Grelling. Leonard Nelson was the son of lawyer Heinrich Nelson and artist Elisabeth Lejeune Dirichlet, granddaughter of mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and descendant of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Nelson married his wife, Elisabeth Schemmann.
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