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WATTENBACH, WILHELM (1819–1897)

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WATTENBACH, WILHELM (1819–1897) , See also:German historian, was See also:born at Ranzau in See also:Holstein on the 22nd of See also:September 1819. He studied See also:philology at the See also:universities of See also:Bonn, See also:Gottingen and See also:Berlin, and in 1843 he began to See also:work upon the Monumenta Germaniae histories'. In 1855 he was appointed archivist at See also:Breslau; in 1862 he became See also:professor of See also:history at See also:Heidelberg, and ten years later professor at Berlin, where he was a member of the directing See also:body of the Monumenta and 'a member of the See also:Academy. He died at See also:Frankfort on the 21st of September 1897. Wattenbach was distinguished by his thorough knowledge of the See also:chronicles and other See also:original documents of the See also:middle ages, and his most valuable work was done in this See also:field. His See also:principal See also:book, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen See also:im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte See also:des 13. Jahrhunderts, is unrivalled as a See also:guide to the See also:sources of the history of See also:Germany in the middle ages; this was first published in 1858, and has passed through several See also:editions. Cognate See also:works are his Anleitung zur lateinischen Palaographie (See also:Leipzig, 1869, and again 1886) ; and Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter (Leipzig, 1871, and again 1896). Wattenbach also wrote Beitrdge zur Geschichte der christlichen Kirche in Bohmen and Mahsen (See also:Vienna, 1849); Geschichte des romischen Papsttums (Berlin, 1876) ; and Anleitung zur griechischen Palaographie (Leipzig, 1867, and again 1895).

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