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ARCHENHOLZ, JOHANN WILHELM VON (1743—1812) , See also:German historian, was See also:born at Langfuhr, a suburb of See also:Danzig, on the 3rd of See also:September 1743. From the See also:Berlin See also:Cadet school he passed into the Prussian See also:army at the See also:age of sixteen, and took See also:part in the last See also:campaigns of the Seven Years' See also:War. Retiring from military service, on See also:account of his wounds, with the See also:rank of See also:captain in 1763, he travelled for sixteen years and visited nearly all the countries of See also:Europe, and resided in See also:England for ten years (1769—1779). Returning to See also:Germany in 1780, he obtained a See also:lay canonry at the See also:cathedral of See also:Magdeburg, and immediately entered upon a See also:literary career by See also:publishing the periodical Litteratur- and Volkerkunde (See also:Leipzig, 1782—1791). This was followed in 1785 by England and Italien (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1787), in which he gives a remarkably unprejudiced appreciation of See also:English See also:political and social institutions. Between 1789 and 1798 he published his Annalen der britischen Geschichte (20 vols). But the See also:work by which he is best known to fame is his brilliantly written See also:history of the Seven Years' War, Geschichte See also:des siebenjahrigen Krieges (first published in the Berliner historisches Taschenbuch of 1787, and later in 2 vols., Berlin, 1793; 13th ed., Leipzig, 1892). This work, though as regards the See also:main facts and details it only follows other writers, is still a useful source of See also:information upon the See also:epoch with which it deals. In 1792 Archenholz removed to See also:Hamburg, and there, from 1792 to 1812, edited the See also:journal See also:Minerva, which had a See also:great reputation for its literary, See also:historical and political information. Archenholz died at his See also:country seat, Oyendorf, near Hamburg, on the 28th of See also:February 1812.

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