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Born April 10, 1829 • Germany
Died December 24, 1891 (aged 62) • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Subjects Of Study Reformation • Germany
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer
German religious reformer
Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
German jurist and historian
Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
Karl Gotthard Lamprecht
German historian
Treitschke, Heinrich von
Heinrich von Treitschke
German historian
Meinecke, 1942
Friedrich Meinecke
German historian
Heinrich von Sybel
German historian
Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist
Georg Waitz
German historian
Dahlmann, detail from an engraving by Adolf Hohneck, 1844
Friedrich Dahlmann
German historian
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
German author
Franz von Sickingen
Franz von Sickingen
German knight
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
Johann Friedrich Böhmer
German historian
Adam Of Bremen
German historian
Thietmar
Thietmar
German bishop
Wilhelm von Giesebrecht
German historian
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Bainville, 1936
Jacques Bainville
French historian
Edward R. Murrow (left) and William L. Shirer.
William L. Shirer
American author

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