Dating the First Appearance of Mendeleev's Table in a German Textbook

This paper shows how misleading title-page dates have obscured the fact that Mendeleev's periodic law entered German textbooks in 1872, scarcely a year after Mendeleev's second canonical paper on the periodic table had been published in German.

Based on contemporary advertisements, catalogues, and journal listings from late 1872, the third edition of Rammelsberg's Grundriss der Chemie gemäss den neueren Ansichten —the first German textbook to feature Mendeleev's periodic table— was published in 1872, not 1873 as stated on its title page.