Anton Gindely
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Anton Gindely (September 3, 1829 - October 24, 1892) was a German historian, the son of a German father and a Slavonic mother, born Prague.
He studied at Prague and at Olmütz, and, after travelling extensively in search of historical material, became professor of history at the university of Prague and archivist for Bohemia in 1862. He died in Prague.
Gindely's chief work is his Geschichte des dreissigjahrigen Krieges (Prague, 1869-1880), which has been translated into English (New York, 1884); and his historical work is mainly concerned with the period of the Thirty Years' War.
Perhaps the most important of his numerous other works are:
- Geschichte der böhmischen Brüder (Prague, 1857-1858)
- Rudolf II. und seine Zeit(1862-1868), and a criticism of Wallenstein, Wallenstein waehrend seines ersten Generalats (1886)
He wrote a history of Bethlen Gabor in Hungarian, and edited the Monumenta historiae Bohemica. Gindely's posthumous work, Geschichte der Gegenreformation in Böhmen, was edited by T. Tupetz (1894).
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