biography
pronunciation:
[viyts]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–86)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Flensburg, N Germany. He studied at Kiel and Berlin, became professor of history at Kiel (1842), and represented Kiel at the national parliament in Frankfurt (1846), where he supported the unification of all the German states into one nation. As professor at Göttingen (1849–75), he founded the Göttingen historical school. He was editor of (1875–86) and contributor to the Monumenta Germaniae historica. His major work was Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte (1844–78, German Constitutional History). |
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