VMs: Strasser, Gerhard F. ?

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Found this guy while doing a search on Renaissance codes. Do we know him?
Seems like someone who knows his stuff:

http://german.la.psu.edu/faculty/strasser99.htm

Strasser, Gerhard F.  Lingua Universalis:  Kryptologie und Theorie der
Universalsprachen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert  (Lingua Universalis:
Cryptology and the Theory of Universal Languages in the 16th and 17th
Centuries).  Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Vol. 38. Wiesbaden:  Harrassowitz,
1988.   (author, monograph)

Strasser, Gerhard F.  "Kryptographische Werke"  (Cryptographic Works).  In
Herzog August Bibliothek: Lexikon.  Eds. Georg Ruppelt and Sabine Solf.
München, London, New York, Paris:  K. G. Saur, 1992, p. 97.   (dictionary
entry)

Strasser, Gerhard F.  "Diplomatic Cryptology and Universal Languages in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."  In Go Spy the Land: Military
Intelligence in History.  Eds. Keith Neilson and B. J. C. McKercher.
Westport, CT; London: Praeger, 1992, pp. 73-97.

Strasser, Gerhard F.  "Herzog August, Gelehrter und Sammler: Geheimschrift"
(Duke August [of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel], Scholar and Collector:
Cryptology).  In Sammler--Fürst--Gelehrter: Herzog August zu Braunschweig
und Lüneburg, 1579-1666.  Wolfenbüttel, Germany:  Ausstellungskatalog der
[exhibition catalogue of the] Herzog August Bibliothek, 1979, pp. 181-191.

Strasser, Gerhard F.  "Lingua realis, lingua universalis und lingua
cryptologica:  Analogiebildungen bei den Universalsprachen des 16. und 17.
Jahrhunderts"  (The Use of Analogy in the Creation of Universal Languages of
the 16th and 17th Centuries).  In Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 12
(1989), pp. 203-217.

Strasser, Gerhard F.  "The Noblest Cryptologist:  Duke August the Younger of
Brunswick-Luneburg (Gustavus Selenus) and His Cryptological Activities."  In
Cryptologia: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to All Aspects of Cryptology
(Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN), 7, No. 3 (1983), pp.
193-217.

Strasser, Gerhard F.  "Die kryptographische Sammlung Herzog Augusts:  Vom
Quellenmaterial für seine 'Cryptomenytices' zu einem Schwerpunkt in seiner
Bibliothek"  (The Cryptographic Collection of Duke August:  From Source
Material for His Cryptomenytices [a cryptological compendium] to a Focal
Point in His Library).  In Wolfenbütteler Beiträge 5 (1982), pp. 83-121.
(article, refereed irregular publication)



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