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| Giesebrecht, Wilhelm von |
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(v l´h lm f n g ´z br kht) (KEY) , 181489, German historian. A gifted student of Ranke, he later taught at the Univ. of Königsberg. His Geschichte der deutschen Kaiserzeit [history of the imperial period of Germany] (5 vol., 185588) remains a monument of scholarship as well as literature. It terminates with the reign of Emperor Frederick I. |
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