Anton Gindely

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Anton Gindely, Czech: Antonín Gindely, (September 3, 1829 – October 24, 1892) was a Bohemian historian, the son of a German-speaking father and a Czech mother, born in Prague.

He studied at Prague and at Olomouc, and, after travelling extensively in search of historical material, became professor of history at the Charles 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).

[edit] Further reading

• Kamil Krofta: Antonín Gindely o české otázce r. 1879 a jeho poměr k rozdělení pražské university r. 1882. In 30 ČČH 1/1924, pp. 95–108.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.