Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (11 November 1752 – 14 March 1810) was a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

born in

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. He published works on national,

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and

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. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History. Spittler studied at

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in three ...

, and in 1778 became a full professor at the

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. At Göttingen he collaborated on several important projects with historians August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809), Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799) and constitutional law teacher

Johann Stephan Pütter Johann Stephan Pütter (25 June 1725, Iserlohn – 12 August 1807, Göttingen) was a German law lecturer and publicist. He was professor of law at the university of Göttingen from 1746 until his death. He exerted great influence on the law insti ...

(1725–1807). With

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Christoph Meiners (1747–1810), he published the ''Göttingische Historische Magazin'' from January 1787 to August 1791. In 1786 he wrote ''Geschichte des Fürstenthums Hannover seit der Reformation'' ("History of the

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Principality since the

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"), and in 1796, published ''Geschichte der Dänischen Revolution im Jahr 1660'', a book in which he described how Frederick III introduced political absolutism in

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. Another influential work of Spittler's was ''Landesgeschichte in der Zeit der Deutschen Spataufklarung'' ("The Country's History during the German Spataufklarung").

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* 18th-century German historians Writers from Stuttgart 1753 births 1810 deaths Academic staff of the University of Göttingen University of Tübingen alumni German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German historians {{Germany-historian-stub