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See also:GIESEBRECHT, WILHELM VON (1814–1889) , See also:German historian, was a son of Karl Giesebrecht (d. 1832), and a See also:nephew of the poet See also:Ludwig Giesebrecht (1792–1873). See also:Born in See also:Berlin on the 5th of See also:March 1814, he studied under See also:Leopold von See also:Ranke, and his first important See also:work, Geschichte Ottosll., was contributed to Ranke's Jahrbucher See also:des deuischen Reichs unter dem sachsischen Hause (Berlin, 1837–1840). In 1841 he published his Jahrbucher des Klosters Altaich, a reconstruction of the lost Annales Altahenses, a See also:medieval source of which fragments only were known to be extant, and these were obscured in other See also:chronicles. The brilliance of this performance was shown in 1867, when a copy of the See also:original See also:chronicle was found, and it was seen that Giesebrecht's See also:text was substantially correct. In the meantime he had been appointed Oberlehrer in the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin; had paid a visit to See also:Italy, and as a result of his re-searches there had published De litterarum studiis apud Italos primis medii aevi seculis (Berlin, 1845), a study upon the survival of culture in See also:Italian cities during the See also:middle ages, and also several See also:critical essays upon the See also:sources for the See also:early See also:history of the popes. In 1851 appeared his See also:translation of the Historiae of See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory of See also:Tours, which is the See also:standard German translation. Four years later appeared the first See also:volume of his See also:great work,
Geschichte der deuischen Kaiserzeit, the fifth volume of which was published in 1888. This work was the first in which the results of the scientific methods of See also:research were thrown open to the See also:world at large. Largeness of See also:style and brilliance of portrayal were joined to an See also:absolute mastery of the sources in a way hitherto unachieved by any German historian. Yet later German historians have severely criticized his glorification of the imperial era with its Italian entanglements, in which the interests of See also:Germany were sacrificed for idle See also:glory. Giesebrecht's history, however, appeared when the new German See also:empire was in the making, and became popular owing both to its patriotic See also:tone and its See also:intrinsic merits. In 1857 he went to See also:Konigsberg as See also:professor ordinarius, and in 1862 succeeded H. von See also:Sybel as professor of history in the university of See also:Munich. The Bavarian See also:government honoured him in various ways, and he died at Munich on the 17th of See also:December 1889. In addition to the See also:works already mentioned, Giesebrecht published a See also:good monograph on See also:Arnold of See also:Brescia (Munich, 1873), a collection of essays under the See also:title Deutsche Reden (Munich, 1871), and was an active member of the See also:group of scholars who took over the direction of the Monumenta Germaniae historica in 1875. In 1895 B. von See also:Simson added a See also:sixth volume to the Geschichte der deuischen Kaiserzeit, thus bringing the work down to the See also:death of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick I. in 1190.
See S. Riezler, Gedachtnisrede auf Wilhelm von Giesebrecht (Munich, 1891); and See also:Lord See also:Acton in the See also:English See also:Historical See also:Review, vol. v. (See also:London, 1890).
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