Hermann von Liebenau (3 October 1807 – 28 July 1874) was a

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. He studied medicine in Germany and Austria until 1836, but after this published in historiography exclusively. He moved to Lucerne in 1837, where he remained until his death with the exception of an absence during 1855 to 1860 during which he was in

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service as a physician. He published some works on contemporary history, the Swiss Regeneration and the formation of

Switzerland as a federal state The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war, the ''Sonderbundskrieg''. The constitution, which was heavily influenced by the United State ...

but mostly focussed on the medieval history of the

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Works

*1845 „Der Aprilgang der Freischaaren aufgeführt im Jahre 1845 gen Luzern“ (Lucerne) *1846 „Versuch einer urkundlichen Darstellung des reichsfreien Stiftes Engelberg St. Benedicten-Ordens in der Schweiz, XII. und XIII. Jahrhundert“ (Lucerne) *„Die Winkelriede von Stans, bis auf Arnold Winkelried, den Helden von Sempach“, (1854). *1864 „Die Tell-Sage zu dem Jahre 1230“ (Aarau) * 1862 „

Arnold Winkelried Arnold von Winkelried or Arnold Winkelried was a legendary hero of Switzerland, Swiss history. According to 16th-century Historiography of Switzerland, Swiss historiography, Winkelried's sacrifice brought about the victory of the Old Swiss Confede ...

, seine Zeit und seine That, ein historisches Bild nach den neuesten Forschungen“ (Aarau) *1868 „Lebensgeschichte der Königin Agnes von Ungarn, der letzten Habsburgerin des erlauchten Stammhauses im Aargau“ (Regensburg) *1873–1875 „Urkunden und Regesten zur Geschichte des St. Gotthardpasses“, Archiv für schweizerische Geschichte, XVIII-XX

References

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, Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol. 18 (1883), 562–563. {{DEFAULTSORT:Liebenau, Hermann von 1807 births 1874 deaths 19th-century Swiss historians Swiss male writers 19th-century Swiss male writers Immigrants to Switzerland