August Kluckhohn

August Kluckhohn
Academic work

August Kluckhohn (6 July 1832 – 19 May 1893) was a German historian, born at Bavenhausen in Lippe. He studied at Heidelberg and Göttingen University, and in 1858 went to Munich to become editor of the criticism portion of Sybel's Historische Zeitschrift. He became an instructor in history at the University of Munich in 1860, in 1865 being promoted to extraordinary professor. In 1869, he was appointed ordinary professor of history at the Polytechnic School in Munich, and in 1883 he went to the University of Göttingen.

Works

His works include:

• Geschichte des Gottesfriedens (1857)
• Wilhelm III., Herzog von Bayern-München (1861)
• Ludwig der Reiche, Herzog von Bayern-Landshut (1865)
• Friedrich der Fromme, Kurfürst von der Pfalz (1876–79)
• Luise, Königin von Preussen (1876)
• Blücher (1879)
• Ueber L. von Westenrieders Leben und Schriften (1890)
• Vorträge und Aufsätze (Heigel and Wrede, Munich, 1894)

Notes

References

•  Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Kluckhohn, August". Encyclopedia Americana.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Kluckhohn, August". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.