Max Pollux Toeppen, surname sometimes spelled Töppen (4 April 1822, in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was name ...

– 3 December 1893, in Elbing) was a German

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and educator. He studied

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and

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at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Pruss ...

, where he received his doctorate (1843) and habilitation (1848). From 1854 he was director of the "progymnasium" in Hohenstein, followed by administrative positions at schools in

Marienwerder Kwidzyn (pronounced ; german: Marienwerder; Latin: ''Quedin''; Old Prussian: ''Kwēdina'') is a town in northern Poland on the Liwa River, with 38,553 inhabitants (2018). It is the capital of Kwidzyn County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Geog ...

(1869-1882) and Elbing (1882-1893). Toeppen Preussen 1818

Known for his scholarly investigations on Prussian history, he was co-editor of ''Scriptores rerum Prussicarum'' (1861-1874, 5 volumes), and editor of ''Acten der Ständetage Preußens unter der Herrschaft des Deutschen Ordens'' (Acts of Prussian "Ständetage" under the rule of the

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; 1874-1886, 5 volumes). The following are a few of his historical writings: * ''Critica de Historia Borussiae Antiqua'', 1847 * ''Geschichte der preussischen Historiographie'', 1853 - History of Prussian

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

. * ''Atlas zur historisch-comparativen Geographie von Preussen'', 1858 - Atlas of comparative historical

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of Prussia. * ''Geschichte Masurens'', 1870 - History of

Masuria Masuria (, german: Masuren, Masurian: ''Mazurÿ'') is a ethnographic and geographic region in northern and northeastern Poland, known for its 2,000 lakes. Masuria occupies much of the Masurian Lake District. Administratively, it is part of the ...

* ''Geschichte der Stadt Marienwerder und ihrer Kunstbauten'', 1875 - History of the city of Marienwerder and its engineering structures. * ''Geschichte der räumlichen Ausbreitung der Stadt Elbing mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Befestigung und ihrer wichtigsten Gebäude'', 1887 - History on the spatial spread of the town of Elbing, etc.Google Books
(publications)

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Biography
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie {{DEFAULTSORT:Toeppen, Max Writers from Königsberg University of Königsberg alumni 1822 births 1893 deaths 19th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers