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ARNETH, ALFRED, RITTER
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See also:ARNETH, See also:ALFRED, See also:RITTER voN (1819-1897), See also:Austrian historian, See also:born at See also:Vienna on the loth of See also:July 1819, was the son of See also:Joseph Calasanza von Arneth (1791-1863), a well-known historian and archaeologist, who wrote a See also:history of the Austrian See also:empire (Vienna, 1827) and several See also:works on See also:numismatics. Alfred Arneth studied See also:law, and became an See also:official of the Austrian See also:state archives, of which in 1868 he was appointed keeper. He was a moderate liberal in politics and a supporter of the ideal of See also:German unity. As such he was elected to the See also:Frankfort pariian7ent in 1848. In 1861 he became a member of the See also:Lower Austrian See also:diet and in 1869 was nominated to the Upper See also:House of the Austrian Reichsrath. In 1879 he was appointed See also:president of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (See also:Academy of Sciences) at Vienna, and in 1896 succeeded von See also:Sybel as chairman of the See also:historical See also:commission at See also:Munich. He died on the 3oth of July 1897. Arneth was an indefatigable worker, and, as director of the archives, his broad-minded willingness to listen to the See also:advice of experts, as well as his own See also:sound sense, did much to promote the more scientific treatment and use of public records in most of the archives of See also:Europe. His scientific See also:temper and the See also:special facilities which he enjoyed for See also:drawing from See also:original See also:sources give to his numerous historical works a very special value. Among his publications may be mentioned: Leben See also:des Feldmarschalls Grafen Guido Starhemberg (Vienna, x863); Prinz Eugen von Savoyen (3 vols., ib. 1864); Gesch. der Maria See also:Theresa (to vols., ib. 1863–1879) ; Maria Theresa u. See also:Marie Antoinette, ihr Briefwechsel (ib. 1866) ; Marie Antoinette, Joseph II. and See also:Leopold II., ihr Briefwechsel (1866) ; Maria Theresa and Joseph II., ihre Korrespondenz samt Briefen Josephs an semen Bruder Leopold (3 vols., 1867) ; See also:Beaumarchais and Sonnenfels (1868); Joseph II. and Katharina von Russland, ihr Briefwechsel (1869); Johann See also:Christian Barthenstein and See also:seine Zeit (1871); Joseph II. and Leopold von Toskana, ihr Briefwechsel (2 vols., 1872) ; Briefe der Kaiserin Maria Theresa an ihre Kinder and Freunde (4 vols., 1881); Marie Antoinette: Correspondance secrete entre Marie-Therese et le See also:comte de See also:Mercy-Argenteau (3 vols., See also:Paris, 1875), in collaboration with Auguste See also:Geffroy; See also:Graf Philipp Cobenzl and seine Memoiren (1885) ; Correspondance secrete du comte de Mercy-Argenteau avec l'empereur Joseph IL et Kaunitz (2 vols., 1889–1891), in collaboration with Jules Flammermont; Anton Ritter von See also:Schmerling. Episoden aus seinem Leben 1835, 1848–1849 (1895); Johann Freiherr von Wessenberg, ein bslerreichischer Staatsmann des 1g. Jahrh. (2 vols., 1898). Arneth also published in 1893 two volumes of See also:early reminiscences under the See also:title of Aus meinem Leben. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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