Jacob Paul von Gundling
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Jacob Paul Freiherr von Gundling (19 August 1673 in Hersbruck - 11 April 1731 in Potsdam) was a German historian.
Court Historiographer to Frederick I of Prussia, he became a figure of ridicule in the "Tobacco Cabinet" (Tabakskollegium) of Frederick William I.
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- Clark, Christopher (2006). Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600–1947. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard, 776. ISBN 067402385-4. (p.80)
- Mitford, Nancy (1970). Frederick the Great. London: Hamish Hamilton, 264. ISBN 0140036539.