biography
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Treitschke, Heinrich von
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pronunciation:
[triychkuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1834–96)
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| biography:
| Historian and political journalist, born in Dresden, E Germany. He became professor of political science in Freiburg im Breisgau (1863), and professor of history in Kiel (1866), in Heidelberg (1867), and in Berlin (1874). In 1886 he was nominated ‘Historiograph des preußischen Staates’. In 1871–84 he was a member of the Reichstag (initially national-liberal, later independent). As a proponent of a unified German state under one authority, he fought against socialism and democracy and advocated a strong central government and colonial acquisitions. He was an early exponent of anti-semitism. With his main work Deutsche Geschichte des 19. Jh. (1879–94) he moulded the historical understanding and the nationalist tendencies of the German bourgeoisie. |
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