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 · Measuring the World. by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway. pp, Quercus, £ Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt Author: Giles Foden. When Measuring The World by then thirty-year-old German novelist Daniel Kehlmann was published in autumn , it was a rapid sensation. In what is an almost unheard-of combination, critics and readers were equally enthusiastic. The novel remained Germany‘s number one bestseller for weeks. It was a success abroad, too. It was translated. Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World, Quercus/Riverrun (German title: Die Vermessung der Welt, ). English translation: Carol Brown Janeway. Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in

German-Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann's historical novel, Measuring the World (), offers a fictionalized account of the lives of the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and the German geographer Alexander von Humboldt, two figures who in the 19th century developed groundbreaking methods for measuring the Earth. The book was adapted into a film directed by Detlev Buck in Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann, Author, trans. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Pantheon $23 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Halfway through the novel, Kehlmann lists among some famous measurers Mason and Dixon. Like Pynchon's novel about them, "Measuring the World" is a buddy book, but with a difference.

Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World, Quercus/Riverrun (German title: Die Vermessung der Welt, ). English translation: Carol Brown Janeway. Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a novel by German author Daniel Kehlmann, published in by Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek. The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground.