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FALKE, JOHANN See also:FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1823-1876) , See also:German historian, was See also:born at Ratzeburg on the loth of See also:April 1823. Entering the university of See also:Erlangen in 1843, he soon began to devote his See also:attention to the See also:history of the German. See also:language and literature, and in 1848 went to See also:Munich, where he remained five years,. and diligently availed himself of the use of the See also:government library for the purpose of prosecuting his See also:historical studies. In 1856 he was appointed secretary of the German museum at See also:Nuremberg, and in 1859 keeper of the See also:manuscripts. With the aid of the See also:manuscript collections in the museum he now turned his attention chiefly to See also:political history, and, with Johann H. See also:Muller, established an historical See also:journal under the name of Zeitschrift See also:fur deutsche Kulturgeschichte (4 vols., Nuremberg, 1856-r859). To this journal he contributed a history of German See also:taxation and See also:commerce. On the latter subject he published separately Geschichte See also:des deutschen Hardels (2 vols., See also:Leipzig, 1859-r86o) and See also:Die Hansa als deutsche See-und Handelsmacht (See also:Berlin, 1862). In 1862 he was appointed secretary of the See also:state archives at See also:Dresden, and, a little later, keeper. He there began the study of Saxon history, still devoting his attention chiefly to the history of commerce and See also:economy, and published Die Geschichte des Kurfiirsten See also:August von Sachsen in volkswirthschaftlicher Beziehung (Leipzig, 1868) and Geschichte des deutschen Zollwesens (Leipzig, 1869). He died at Dresden on the 2nd of See also:March 1876.

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