Julius von Pflugk-Harttung

Julius von Pflugk-Harttung (1848-1919) was a German historian, best known as an authority on Papal and medieval history.

Biography

He was born at Wernikow, studied at Bonn, Berlin, and Göttingen, and in 1886 became professor of history at Basel. Thence he went to Berlin, where in 1893 he became head of the Secret State Archives.

Works

• Studien zur Geschichte Konrads II (1876–77)
• Norwegen und die deutschen Seestädte (1887)
• Acta Pontificorum Romanorum Inedita, 748-1198 (1879–88)
• Iter Italicum (1883)
• Allgemeine Weltgeschichte (Berlin: G. Grote, 1884-1892), section on the early Middle Ages (1889)
• Krieg und Sieg 1870-71 (1895), the first of his studies of modern history
• Napoleon I, Republik und Kaisertum (1900)
• Die Bullen der Päpste bis zum Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts (1901)
• Weltgeschichte (6 vols., 1907–10)
• Das Befreiungsjahr 1813 (1913)
• Belle-Alliance-verbündetes Heer (1915)

A number of his works have been translated into English, among them The Great Migration and The Early Middle Ages, by Wright (Philadelphia, 1902); and The Franco-German War, by General Maurice (London, 1900).

Notes

References

•  Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Pflugk-Harttung, Julius Albert G. von". Encyclopedia Americana. 
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "Pflugk-Harttung, Julius von". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.