Wilhelm Ferdinand Arndt (27 September 1838, Lobsens, Posen,

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– 10 January 1895) was a

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historian.

Biography

He graduated from the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

(PhD 1861) and became connected with the

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( privatdozent, 1875/76; associate professor of

auxiliary sciences of history Auxiliary (or ancillary) sciences of history are scholarly disciplines which help evaluate and use historical sources and are seen as auxiliary for historical research. Many of these areas of study, classification and analysis were originally deve ...

, 1876–94).Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Ferdinand Arndt
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Works

For many years he was a collaborator on the '' Monumenta Germaniæ Historica'' (1862–75). His chief works are: * ''Kleine Denkmäler aus der Merowingerzeit'' (“Small monuments from

Merovingian The Merovingian dynasty () was the ruling family of the Franks from the middle of the 5th century until 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gauli ...

times,” 1874) * ''Schrifttafeln zur Erlernung der lateinischen Paläographie'' (“Tables of characters for the study of Latin paleography,” 1874, 3d ed., 1898)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arndt, Wilhelm 1838 births 1895 deaths People from Piła County People from the Grand Duchy of Posen University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University 19th-century German historians 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers German medievalists German palaeographers