Wilhelm Arndt
Wilhelm Ferdinand Arndt (27 September 1838, Lobsens, Posen, Prussia – 10 January 1895) was a German historian.
Biography
[edit]He graduated from the University of Göttingen (PhD 1861) and became connected with the University of Leipzig (privatdozent, 1875/76; associate professor of auxiliary sciences of history, 1876–94).[1]
Works
[edit]For many years he was a collaborator on the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica (1862–75).[1]
His chief works are:
- Kleine Denkmäler aus der Merowingerzeit (“Small monuments from Merovingian times,” 1874)
- Schrifttafeln zur Erlernung der lateinischen Paläographie (“Tables of characters for the study of Latin paleography,” 1874, 3d ed., 1898)
References
[edit]- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ a b Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Ferdinand Arndt Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
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- 1838 births
- 1895 deaths
- People from Piła County
- People from the Grand Duchy of Posen
- University of Göttingen alumni
- Academic staff of Leipzig University
- 19th-century German historians
- 19th-century German writers
- 19th-century German male writers
- German male non-fiction writers
- German medievalists
- German palaeographers
- Historians from the Kingdom of Prussia
- Writers from the German Empire