Rodolphe Ernest Reuss (aka Rudolf Reuss in German; 13 October 1841 in

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– 16 August 1924 in

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) was a French historian from

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. He also published under the pseudonym Anton Schweidnitz.

Biography

Rodolphe Reuss was born to Protestant theologian Edouard Reuss and his wife Julie (née Himly). He was educated at Strasbourg, receiving a bachelor at the Faculty of Arts in 1861. Subsequently, he spent three years at different universities in Germany, at first in

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, then

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, Berlin, and finally

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, where he attended the lectures of German historian Georg Waitz and where he finished his PhD thesis on Count

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in October 1864. He earned a Dr.Phil "summa cum laude" in December 1864, and subsequently returned to Strasbourg, where he became a teacher at the

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in 1865. Four years later on, he was appointed

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at the Protestant Seminary of Strasbourg. After the Franco-Prussian War he resumed his position as teacher, retired however from the Protestant seminary when the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität was founded in 1872 and became librarian at the Strasbourg library. Reuss worked as a teacher and librarian in his hometown until 1896."Rodolphe Reuss. Soixante années d'activité scientifique et littéraire, 1864-1924."
by Christian Pfister He then moved to Versailles, close to Paris, where he was appointed professor at the École des hautes études in June 1896. He gave lectures there two times a week for 26 years, while living with his family in Versailles. He died there in 1924.

Works

His historical writings in both French and German deal with Alsace; among them are: * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Krieges im Elsass'' (“Contributions to the history of the 30 Years War in Alsace,” 1868) * ''Vieux noms et rues nouvelles de Strasbourg'' (“Old names and new streets of Strasbourg,” 1883) * ''Alsace au XVIIIème siècle'' (“Alsace in the 18th century,” 1897 et seq.)

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Works by Rudolf Reuss
worldcat.org * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reuss, Rodolphe 20th-century French historians French librarians 1841 births 1924 deaths Writers from Strasbourg School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences faculty French male non-fiction writers 19th-century French historians