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- ↑ Carl Schurz (1913). Lebenserinnerungen Bis zum Jahre 1850: Selections. Edited with notes and vocabulary by Edward Manley. Norwood, Massachusetts: Allyn and Bacon. p. 217.
- Bernhard von Poten (1894), "Tiedemann, Gustav Nikolaus", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), vol. 38, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 278–280
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