diff --git a/dune/elasticity/assemblers/feassembler.hh b/dune/elasticity/assemblers/feassembler.hh
index 7144706f37bf6bdced32d2c5df48185894269632..0486478a3df58ad5b879f4c148237093b6f2148e 100644
--- a/dune/elasticity/assemblers/feassembler.hh
+++ b/dune/elasticity/assemblers/feassembler.hh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include "localfestiffness.hh"
 
 
-/** \brief A global FE assembler for problems involving functions that map into non-Euclidean spaces
+/** \brief A global FE assembler for variational problems
  */
 template <class Basis, class VectorType>
 class FEAssembler {
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ public:
 
     /** \brief Assemble the tangent stiffness matrix and the functional gradient together
      *
-     * This is more efficient than computing them separately, because you need the gradient
-     * anyway to compute the Riemannian Hessian.
+     * This may be more efficient than computing them separately
      */
     virtual void assembleGradientAndHessian(const VectorType& sol,
                                             Dune::BlockVector<Dune::FieldVector<double, blocksize> >& gradient,