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Carl Gustav Axel Harnack

Baltic german mathematician.

Born May 7th, 1851 in Tartu.

Died April 3rd, 1888 at 36 years old in Dresden.

Occupations
mathematician, university teacher

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche