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Reinhold Pauli (25 May 1823 in
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– 3 June 1882 in
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) was a German historian of
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.


Life

He studied at the universities of
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and
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, where he received his PhD in 1846. In 1847 he moved to England, where he served as private secretary to Baron von Bunsen, the Prussian ambassador in
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. In 1852–55 he studied history in Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge and London. In 1855 he returned to Germany, and successively became a professor of history at the universities of
Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...
,
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,
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and
Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...
. In 1866 he left the University of Tübingen because of his political views. He wrot
''The Life of King Alfred''
(1852), ''History of England from the Accession of Henry II to the Death of Henry VII'',This work was the continuation of
Johann Martin Lappenberg Johann Martin Lappenberg (July 30, 1794 – November 28, 1865) was a German diplomat, groundbreaking medievalist, and historian with a focus on the early Holy Roman Empire, the Hanseatic League, and Saxon England. Biography He was born at Hamburg ...
's ''Geschichte von England'' (2 vols, Hamburg 1834-1837).''Pictures of Old England''
(1861) an
''Simon de Montfort''
(1876).


Influence

John Robert Seeley Sir John Robert Seeley, Order of St. Michael and St. George, KCMG (10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895) was an English Liberal Party (UK), Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent adv ...
dedicated his biography of
Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (25 October 1757 – 29 June 1831), commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms, which paved the way for the unification of Germany. He promoted the ...
to Pauli, stating that "Germany may boast of having put the history of every great European state as much within the reach of her public as her own history. Your countrymen can study the affairs of foreign countries not merely in translations, or hasty magazine-articles, but in elaborate works, written in their own language, with full responsibility and independence of judgment, written also by those who understand clearly the wants the public which they write. Among this group of writers you are best known in England, and I shall make my object in writing this best understood by announcing in this dedication that I belong to your school"


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External links

* "Reinhold Pauli" ''German wikipedia'' * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pauli, Reinhold 19th-century German historians Historians from the Kingdom of Prussia Members of the Prussian House of Lords 1823 births 1882 deaths Academic staff of the University of Marburg Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Academic staff of the University of Rostock 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers