Ge (unit)

Ge was a German measure of volume and liquid in Augsburg and a measure of length in the Indian suburbs.

Volume and liquid measure

• 1 Ge = 2 Muids / Mütt = 12 Besons = 144 Maß = about 153.9 liters
• 1 fuder = 8 ge

Length measure

Ge was also a measure of length in the north of India .

• 1 Ge = 35 Leipzig cubits [about 19.81 meters (0.566 meters by 35)]

literature

• Oskar Mothes: Illustrated building lexicon. Issue 15, Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1864, p. 118

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joseph Marx Liechtenstern: General German subject dictionary of all human knowledge. Volume 3, FW Goedsche, Meißen 1836, p. 509