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LAPPENBERG , JOHANN historian, was See also:

born on the 3oth of See also:July 1794 at See also:Hamburg, where his See also:father, Valentin Anton Lappenberg (1759–1819), held an See also:official position. He studied See also:medicine, and afterwards See also:history, at See also:Edinburgh. He continued to study history in See also:London, and at See also:Berlin and See also:Gottingen, graduating as See also:doctor of See also:laws at Gottingen in 1816. In 1820 he was sent by the Hamburg See also:senate as See also:resident See also:minister to the Prussian See also:court. In 1823 he became keeper of the Hamburg archives; an See also:office in which he had the fullest opportunities for the laborious and See also:critical See also:research See also:work upon which his reputation as an historian rests. He retained this See also:post until 1863, when a serious See also:affection of the eyes compelled him to resign. In 185o he represented Hamburg in the See also:German See also:parliament at See also:Frankfort, and his See also:death took See also:place at Hamburg on the 28th of See also:November 1865. Lappenberg's most important work is his Geschichte von See also:England, which deals with the history of England from the earliest times to 1154, and was published in two volumes at Hamburg in 1834–1837. It has been translated into See also:English by B. See also:Thorpe as History of England under the Anglo-Saxon See also:Kings (London 1845, and again 1881), and History of England under the See also:Norman Kings (See also:Oxford, 1857), and has been continued in three additional volumes from 1154 to 1509 by R. See also:Pauli. His other See also:works See also:deal mainly with the history of Hamburg, and include Hamburgische Chroniken in Niedersdchsischer Sprache (Hamburg, 1852–1861); Geschichtsquellen See also:des Erzstiftes and der Stadt See also:Bremen (Bremen, 1841); Hamburgisches Urkundenbuch (Hamburg, 1842); Urkundliche Geschichte des Hansischen Stahlhofes zu London (Hamburg, 1851); Hamburgische Rechtsalterthitmer (Hamburg, 1845); and Urkundliche Geschichte des Ursprunges der deutschen Hanse (Hamburg, 1830), a continuation of the work of G.

F. Sartorius. For the Monumenta Germaniae historica he edited the Chronicon of See also:

Thietmar of See also:Merseburg, the Gesta Hammenburgensis ecclesiae pontificum of See also:Adam of Bremen and the Chronica Slavorum of See also:Helmold, with its continuation by See also:Arnold of See also:Lubeck. Lappenberg, who was a member of numerous learned See also:societies in See also:Europe, wrote many other See also:historical works. See E. H. See also:Meyer, Johann See also:Martin Lappenberg (Hamburg, 1867) ; and R. Pauli in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographic, See also:Band xvii. (See also:Leipzig, 1883).

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