DUNCKER, MAXIMILIAN WOLFGANG (18111886)

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DUNCKER, MAXIMILIAN WOLFGANG (18111886) , German historian and politician, eldest son of the publisher Karl Duncker, was born at Berlin on the 15th of October 1811. He studied at the universities of

Bonn

BONN

and Berlin till 1834, was then accused of participation in the students' societies, which the government was endeavouring to suppress, and was condemned to six years' imprisonment, afterwards reduced to six months. He had already begun his labours as a historian, but after serving his sentence in 1837, found himself debarred till 1839 from completing his course at

Halle

, where in 1842 he obtained a professorship. Elected to the National Assembly at Frankfort in 1848, he joined the Right Centre party, and was chosen reporter of the projected constitution. He sat in the

Erfurt

ERFURT

assembly in 185o, and in the second Prussian chamber from 1849 to 1852. During the crisis in Schleswig and Holstein in 185o he endeavoured in person to aid the duchies in their struggles. An outspoken opponent of the
policy of

Manteuffel

MANTEUFFEL, EDWIN, FREIHERR VON (1809-1885)

, he was refused promotion by the Prussian government, and in 1857 accepted the professorship of history at Tubingen. In 1859, however, he was recalled to Berlin as assistant in the ministry of state in the Auerswald cabinet, and in 1861 was appointed councillor to the crown prince. In 1867 he became director of the Prussian archives, with which it was his task to incorporate those of Hanover, Hesse and Nassau. He retired on the 1st of January 1875, and died at Ansbach on the 21st of July 1886. Duncker's eminent position, among German historians rests mainly on his Geschichte des Alterthums (1st ed., 18521857); 5th ed. in 9 vols., 1878-1886; English

translation

TRANSLATION

Evelyn

EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)

Abbott, 1877-1882). He edited, with J. G.

Droysen

DROYSEN, JOHANN GUSTAV (1808—1884)

, Preussische Staatsschriften, Politische Correspondenz Friedrichs des Grossen, and Urkunden and Actenstiicke zur Geschichte des Kurfursten

Friedrich

FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Wilhelm von Brandenburg. To the period of his political activity belong Zur Geschichte der deutschen Reichsversammlung in Frankfurt (1849); Heinrich von Gagern (185o), in the

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of Manner der Gegenwart ; and the

anonymous

ANONYMOUS

Vier Monate auswartiger Politik (1851). His other works include Origines Germanicae (184o); the lectures Die Krisis der Reformation (1845) and Feudalitat and Aristokratie (1858); Aus der Zeit Friedrichs des Grossen and

Friedrich

FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Wilhelm III. Abhandlungen zur preussischen Geschichte (1876); followed after his death by Abhandlungen aus der griechischen Geschichte and Abhandlungen aus der neueren Geschichte (1887).

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