Karl Maria Prosper Laurenz Brandi (20 May 1868 – 9 March 1946) was a German historian. In 1890–91, he wrote his dissertation on the Reichenauer documents: ''Die Reichenauer Urkundenfälschungen'', which served as Volume 1 of ''Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Abtei Reichenau''. He followed his teacher to Berlin in 1891–95. The Munich Historical Commission directed him to complete the posthumous works on

August von Druffel August von Druffel (21 August 1841, in Koblenz – 23 October 1891, in Munich) was a German historian. He studied history, economics and military science at the universities of Innsbruck, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1862 ...

's contributions to imperial history and the

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, ''Monumenta Tridentina''. In 1895 he completed his own habilitation in Göttingen. From 1902 until his retirement in 1936, and again, from the outbreak of

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until shortly before his death, he held a professorship for German History at 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 ...

. His study of

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, french: Charles Quint, it, Carlo V, nl, Karel V, ca, Carles V, la, Carolus V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain ( Castile and Aragon) fr ...

represented a ground breaking shift in the study of the importance of Charles's reign. According to Brandi, Charles V was the last monarch of Germany to have attempted the establishment of the medieval universal christian monarchy: in this, the Emperor was influenced by the legacy of his predecessors dating back to Charlemagne and by the amalgamation of Burgundian, Spanish, and Austrian court traditions.

Works

* ''Mittelalterliche weltanschauung, humanismus und nationale bildung: Vortrag gehalten in der versammlung der Vereinigung der freunde des humanistischen gymnasiums in Berlin und der provinz Brandenburg am 23. Januar 1925''. Weidmann, 1925 – Medieval worldview,

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and national education. *''Geschichte der Geschichtswissenschaft'', Universitäts-Verlag, 1947 – History of historical science. * ''The emperor Charles V; the growth and destiny of a man and of a world empire'', English translation published in 1939.The emperor Charles V
HathiTrust Digital Library This book is mentioned in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, who, while hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam, read and enjoyed the book.

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