Franz Rühl (26 October 1845,

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– 3 July 1915,

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) was a German historian who published numerous works in the field of

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. He was a son-in-law to

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. He studied history and

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

at the universities of

and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1867. After graduation, he took a study trip to

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and worked as a gymnasium teacher in

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. In 1871 he obtained his

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at the

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, and during the following year relocated to

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, where he subsequently became an associate professor of history. From 1876 onward, he was a professor at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

, serving as university rector in 1905/06.

Selected works

From 1872 up until his death, he published numerous articles in the scientific journal ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie''. He was the editor of Alfred von Gutschmid's ''Kleine Schriften'' (5 volumes, 1889–1904), and after the death of Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt, he published Schmidt's ''Handbuch der griechischen chronologie'' ("Handbook of Greek chronology", 1888). Rühl's other noted works are as follows: * ''Die Quellen Plutarchs im Leben des Kimon'', (dissertation), Marburg 1867 –

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's sources in regards to the life of

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. * ''Die Verbreitung des Justinus im Mittelalter'', Leipzig 1871 – The spread of Justinus in the

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. * ''Die Textesquellen des Justinus'', Verlag von B. G. Teubner, Leipzig 1872 – Text sources of Justinus. * as editor: ''Briefwechsel des Ministers und Burggrafen von Marienburg Theodor von Schön'', 1896, ( Theodor von Schön,

Georg Heinrich Pertz Georg Heinrich Pertz (28 March 17957 October 1876) was a German historian and librarian. Personal life Pertz was born in Hanover on 28 March 1795. His parents were the court bookbinder Christian August Pertz and Henrietta Justina née Deppen. ...

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). * ''Chronologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit'', 1897 – Chronology of the Middle Ages and modern times.IDREF.fr
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