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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00017.] The author summarizes the historical aspects of representation theory of groups from Frobenius to a modern context but there are many omissions of important areas (according to the author). In the first section, the author gives a historical account about the subject and in the last part he says: ``This work is in some respect a homage to the work of the Berlin school of Frobenius and Schur. A recurrent theme is that many of the ideas which have evolved in a modern context can be shown to have had their genesis there''. The paper is set out as follows. Section 2 describes the problem which Frobenius set out to solve, and briefly discusses the early developments in group representation theory. In section 3 the various ways in which association schemes and similar objects have arisen are described. In section 4 quasigroup characters are discussed. Results on the quasigroup determinant are presented in section 5, together with some discussion of modern work on the group determinant. In the final section remarks are made on the possible impact of generalization to quasigroups on the mainstream of group representation theory.