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GOTTFRIED GABRIEL BREDOW (1773-1814)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 487 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GABRIEL BREDOW (1773-1814)  , German historian, was born at Berlin on the 14th of December 1773, and became successively professor at the
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universities of
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Helmstedt,
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Frankfort-on-Oder and Breslau . He died at Breslau on the 5th of September 1814 . Bredow's
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principal
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works are Handbuch der alien Geschichte, Geographie and Chronologie (
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Eutin, 1799;
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English trans.,
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London, 1827); Chronik
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des 19 . Jahrhunderts (
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Altona, 18or) ; Entwurf der Weltkunde der Alien (Altona, 1816) ; Weltgeschichte in Tabellen (Altona, 18o1; English trans. by J . Bell, London, 1820); Grundriss einer Geschichte der merkwardigsten lVelthandel von 1796—1810 (
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Hamburg, 181o) . Bredow's
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posthumous writings were edited by J . G . Kunisch (Breslau, 1S23), who added a biography of the author .

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