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SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)

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SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891) , See also:German writer, was See also:born at See also:Prague on the 13th of See also:July 1825 and was educated at the university of his native See also:city. Taking an See also:interest in See also:art, he visited See also:Munich, See also:Dresden and See also:Berlin, and spent some months in See also:Italy; afterwards he settled at See also:Tubingen and in 1848 he returned to Prague and began to lecture at his own university on the See also:history of the revolutionary See also:epoch. The liberal See also:tone of these lectures brought him into disfavour with the ruling authorities, and in 1849 he See also:left Bohemia and passed some See also:time in See also:England, See also:France and the See also:Netherlands. In 1852 he settled at See also:Bonn, where he lectured on art and became a See also:professor in 1859; in 1872 he went to the university of See also:Strassburg and in 1873 to See also:Leipzig. As a journalist and a publicist Springer advocated the federal See also:union of the states ruled by the See also:Austrian See also:emperor, and asserted the right of See also:Prussia to the headship of See also:Germany; during the See also:Crimean See also:War he favoured the emancipation of the small states in the See also:south-See also:east of See also:Europe from See also:Turkish supremacy. After many years of feeble See also:health, he died at Leipzig on the 31st of May 1391. Springer is known as a writer both on history and on art. In the former connexion his most important See also:work is his Geschichte Oesterreichs seit dery wiener Frieden (Leipzig, 1863–1865), which has been translated into See also:Czech (Prague, 1867). His other See also:historical See also:works are: Geschichte See also:des Revolutionszeitalters (Prague, 1849); Oesterreich nach der Revolution (Prague, 1850); Oesterreich, Preussen and Deutschland (Prague, 1851) ; See also:Paris See also:im xiii. Jahrhundert (Leipzig,1856) ; and Protokolle des Verfassungs-Ausschusses im oesterreichischen Reichstage 1848–1849 (Leipzig, 1885). His See also:principal works on art are: Baukunst des christlichen Nlittelalters (Bonn, 1854) ; the valuable Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte (7th ed., Leipzig, 1906), a revised edition of his Grundzuge der Kunstgeschichte (Leipzig, 1887–1888); Geschichte der bildenden Kunste im xix. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1858) ; Bilder aus der neueren Kunstgeschichte (Bonn 1867, and again 1886) ; Raffael and See also:Michelangelo (Leipzig, 1877 and 1885) ; and See also:Die Kunst des xix.

Jahrhunderts (Leipzig 188o-1881). Springer wrote two See also:

biographies: See also:Friedrich Christoph See also:Dahlmann (Leipzig, 1870-1872), and Albrecht Dtirer (Berlin, 1892); and was responsible for the German edition of See also:Crowe and Cavalcaselle's Lives of the See also:Early Flemish Painters, which was published at Leipzig in 1875. His See also:book of reminiscences, Aus meinem Leben (Berlin, 1892), containing contributions by G. See also:Freytag and H. Janitschek, was edited by his son See also:Jaro Springer (b. 1856), who is also known as a writer on art.

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