Heinrich Friedjung (18 January 1851 – 14 July 1920) was an
Austria
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n historian and journalist.
Life
Friedjung was born in Roschtin,
Austrian Empire
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(today
Roštín
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Geography
Roštín is located about southwest of Kroměříž and west of Zlín. The northwestern half of th ...
,
Czech Republic
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). The son of a
Jewish
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family grew up in
Vienna
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, and studied history in
Prague
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and
Berlin
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under
Theodor Mommsen
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and
Leopold von Ranke
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. He taught history and
German language
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at the
Commercial Academy
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(''Handelsakademie'') in Vienna from 1873 to 1879; he was then fired for criticizing the government.
He subsequently became active in politics, notably for his liberal and
German-nationalistic views
and support for the Greater German solution to the
German question.
Friedjung died in Vienna.
Works
* ''Kaiser Karl IV. u. sein Antheil am geistigen Leben seiner Zeit'', Vienna 1876
* ''Der Ausgleich mit Ungarn. Politische Studie über das Verhältnis Österreichs zu Ungarn und Deutschland,'' 3 Auflagen, Leipzig 1876/77
* ''Ein Stück Zeitungsgeschichte'', Vienna 1887
* ''Der Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in Deutschland 1859 bis 1866'', zehn Auflagen, Stuttgart-Berlin 1897–1917
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* ''Benedeks nachgelassene Papiere'', Leipzig 1901
* ''Der Krimkrieg und die österreichische Politik'', Stuttgart-Berlin 1911
* ''Österreich von 1848 bis 1860'', Berlin 1908
* ''Denkschrift aus Deutschösterreich'', Vienna 1915
* ''Das Zeitalter des Imperialismus 1884 bis 1914'', 3 vol., Berlin 1919–1923
* ''Historische Aufsätze'', 2 vol., Stuttgart- Berlin,1917–1919
References
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1851 births
1920 deaths
People from Kroměříž District
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
Czech Jews
Austro-Hungarian Jews
19th-century Austrian historians
20th-century Austrian historians
19th-century Czech people
Jewish historians
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