Julius von Pflugk-Harttung (8 November 1848 – 5 November 1919) was a German historian, best known as an authority on Papal and

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history.

Biography

He was born at Wernikow, and served as a soldier during the Franco-Prussian War. He studied history and

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at the universities of

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and

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. In 1877 he obtained his habilitation at the

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, where shortly afterwards he became an associate professor.Pflugk-Harttung (bis 1876 Harttung), Julius Albert Georg von
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, , S. 358 f. In 1886, he was named a professor of history at

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. Thence he went to

, where in 1893 he became head of the Secret State Archives.

Works

* ''Studien zur Geschichte Konrads II'' (1876–77) – Studies on the history of Conrad II. * ''Norwegen und die deutschen Seestädte'' (1887) – Norway and the German coastal towns. * ''Acta Pontificorum Romanorum Inedita, 748–1198'' (1879–88) * ''Iter Italicum'' (1883). * ''Allgemeine Weltgeschichte'' (Berlin: G. Grote, 1884–1892), section on the early

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(1889). * ''Krieg und Sieg 1870–71'' (1895), the first of his studies of modern history. * ''Napoleon I. Revolution und Kaiserreich'' (1900) –

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. Revolution and empire. * ''Die Bullen der Päpste bis zum Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts'' (1901) – Papal bulls up until the end of the twelfth century. * ''Weltgeschichte'' (6 volumes, 1907–10). * ''Das Befreiungsjahr 1813'' (1913) – The liberation year 1813. * ''Belle-Alliance-verbündetes Heer'' (1915) – Belle-Alliance allies; Report and information on the involvement of German troops of the army of

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at the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Belle-Alliance. A number of his works have been translated into English, among them "''The Great Migration''" and "''The Early Middle Ages''", by Wright (Philadelphia, 1902); and "''The Franco-German War''", by General Maurice (London, 1900).

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pflugk-Harttung, Julius 1848 births 1919 deaths 19th-century German historians 20th-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Academic staff of the University of Basel German archivists People from Ostprignitz-Ruppin 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers