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GEFFCKEN, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH (1830-1896)

GEFFCKEN, See also:
FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH (1830-1896) , See also:

German diplomatist and jurist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 9th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1830 at See also:

HAMBURG

Hamburg, of which See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city his See also:

FATHER

father was senator. After studying See also:

law at See also:

BONN

Bonn, See also:

GOTTINGEN

Gottingen and See also:

Berlin, he was attached in 1854 to the Prussian See also:

LEGATION (Lat. legalio, a sending or mission)

legation at See also:

Paris. For ten years (1856-1866) he was the See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic representative of Hamburg in Berlin, first as See also:

charge d'affaires, and afterwards as See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister=See also:

RESIDENT

resident, being afterwards transferred in a like capacity to See also:

LONDON

London. Appointed in 1872 See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of constitutional See also:

HISTORY

history and public law in the reorganized university of See also:

STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, Geffcken became in 188o a member of the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

state of See also:

ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

Alsace-See also:

LORRAINE

Lorraine. Of too See also:

NERVOUS

nervous a temperament to withstand the See also:

STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

strain of the responsibilities of his position, he retired from public service in 1882, and lived henceforth mostly at See also:

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, where he died, suffocated by an accidental See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape of See also:

GAS

gas into his bedchamber, on the 1st of May 1896. Geffcken was a See also:

man of See also:

GREAT

great erudition and wide knowledge and of remarkable legal acumen, and from these qualities proceeded the See also:

PERSONAL

personal See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence he possessed. He was moreover a clear writer and made his See also:

mark as an essayist. He was one of the most trusted advisers of the Prussian See also:

CROWN

crown See also:

prince, See also:

Frederick See also:

William (afterwards the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor Frederick), and it was he (it is said, at See also:

Bismarck's See also:

SUGGESTION

suggestion) who See also:

drew up the draft of the New German federal constitution, which was submitted to the. crown prince's headquarters at See also:

VERSAILLES

Versailles during the See also:

war of 1870-72. It was also Geffcken who assisted in framing the famous document which the emperor Frederick, on his See also:

ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession to the See also:

THRONE

throne in 1888, addressed to the See also:

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor. This memorandum gave umbrage, and on the publication by Geffcken in the Deutsche, Rundschau (Oct. 1888) of extracts from the emperor Frederick's private See also:

DIARY

diary during the war of 1870-71, he was, at Bismarck's instance, prosecuted for high See also:

TREASON (Fr. trahison, Lat. traditio)

treason. The Reichsgericht (supreme See also:

court), however, quashed the See also:

INDICTMENT (from Anglo-Fr. enditernent, enditer, to charge; Lat. in, against, dictare, declare)

indictment, and Geffcken was liberated after being under See also:

ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest for three months.

Publications of various kinds proceeded from his See also:

PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen. Among these are Zur Geschichte See also:

DES

des orientalischen Krieges 1853–1856 (Berlin, 1881); Frankreich, Russland and der Dreibund (Berlin, 1894); and Staat and Kirche (1875), See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

TRANSLATION

translation by E. F. See also:

FAIRFAX, EDWARD (c. 1580-1635)

Fairfax (1877). His writings on English history have been translated by S. J. Macmullan and published as The See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

EMPIRE

Empire, with essays on Prince See also:

Albert, See also:

Palmerston, See also:

Beaconsfield; See also:

Gladstone, and reform of the See also:

House of Lords (1889).

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