Wilhelm Junghans

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Wilhelm Junghans (May 3, 1834 – January 27, 1865) was a German historian who was a native of Lüneburg.

He studied under Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806-1876) at the University of Bonn, and with Georg Waitz (1813-1886) at the University of Göttingen. In 1862 he was appointed professor at the University of Kiel, a position he held until his death in 1865 at the age of 30. At Kiel he was also secretary of the Schleswig-Holstein Historical Society.

Junghans is remembered for his 1856 work involving the Merovingian kings- Childeric I and Clovis I, titled Die Geschichte der fränkischen Könige Childerich und Chlodovech, kritisch untersucht. This book was later translated into French by historian Gabriel Monod (1844-1912) and published as Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech.

References

Wikisource translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Kiel Instructors (brief biography and photo)

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Name	Junghans, Wilhelm
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Short description	German hisotrian
Date of birth	May 3, 1834
Place of birth
Date of death	January 27, 1865
Place of death

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