Konrad Mannert (April 17, 1756 – September 27, 1834) was a

Prussian Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, the House of Hohenzoll ...

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and

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. Mannert was born in

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, where he did his studies. In 1784 he became a teacher at the Sebaldusschule in

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, and in 1788 at the Ägidiusgymnasium there. In 1796 he became professor of history at the

University of Altdorf The University of Altdorf () was a university in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a small town outside the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. It was founded in 1578 and received university privileges in 1622 and was closed in 1809 by Maximilian I Joseph of Ba ...

, in 1805 at the

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, in 1807 at the

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(then in

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), and from 1826 at the same university in its new location in

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. He died in Munich in 1834. His historical work was known in particular for its focus on studying

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Works

* ''Kompendium der deutschen Reichsgeschichte'', Nuremberg, 1803 – Compendium of German Reich history. * ''Älteste Geschichte Bojariens'', Sulzbach, 1807 – Oldest Bojarian history. * ''Kaiser Ludwig IV.'', Landshut, 1812 –

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* ''Geographie der Griechen und Römer'', Nuremberg, 1795–1825, 10 volumes – Geography of the Greeks and Romans. * ''Tabula Peutingeriana'', Munich, 1824 –

Tabula Peutingeriana ' (Latin Language, Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also known as Peutinger's Tabula, Peutinger tablesJames Strong (theologian) , James Strong and John McClintock (theologian) , John McClintock (1880)"Eleutheropolis" In: ''The Cyclopedia of Bibli ...

. * ''Geschichte Bayerns'', Leipzig, 1826, 2 volumes – Bavarian history. * ''Geschichte der alten Deutschen, besonders der Franken'', Stuttgart, 1829–1832, 2 volumes – History of the ancient Germans, especially the

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mannert, Konrad 1756 births 1834 deaths People from Altdorf bei Nürnberg 18th-century German historians German geographers Academic staff of the University of Altdorf Academic staff of the University of Würzburg Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German historians Historians from the Kingdom of Prussia