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JOHANNES JANSSEN (1829-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 155 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JANSSEN (1829-1891)  , See also:German historian, was See also:born at Xanten on the loth of See also:April 1829, and was educated as a See also:Roman See also:Catholic at See also:Munster, See also:Louvain, See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin, afterwards becoming a teacher of See also:history at See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Main . He was ordained See also:priest in 186o; became a member of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies in 1875; and in 188o was made domestic See also:prelate to the See also:pope and apostolic pronotary . He died at Frankfort on the 24th of See also:December 1891 . See also:Janssen was a stout See also:champion of the Ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic See also:Church . His See also:great See also:work is his Geschichte See also:des deutschen Volkes seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters (8 vols., See also:Freiburg, 1878-1894) . In this See also:book he shows himself very hostile to the See also:Reformation, and attempts to prove that the Protestants were responsible for the See also:general unrest in See also:Germany during the 16th and 17th centuries . The author's partisanship led to some controversy, and Janssen wrote An meine Kritiker (Freiburg, 1882) and Ein zweites Wort an meine Kritiker (Freiburg, 1883) in reply to the See also:Janssens Geschichte des deutschen Volkes (See also:Munich, 1883) of M . See also:Lenz, and other criticisms . The Geschichte, which has passed through numerous See also:editions, has been continued and improved by See also:Ludwig Pastor, and the greater See also:part of it has been translated into See also:English by M . A . See also:Mitchell and A . M .

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Christie (See also:London, 1896, fol.) . Of his other See also:works perhaps the most important are: the editing of Frankfurts Reichskorrespondenz, 1376–1519 (Freiburg, 1863–1872) ; and of the Leben, Briefe and kleinere Schriften of his friend J . F . See also:Bohmer (See also:Leipzig, 1868); a monograph, See also:Schiller als Historiker (Freiburg, 1863) ; and Zeit- and Lebensbilder (Freiburg, 1875) . See L . Pastor, Johannes Janssen (Freiburg, 1893) ; F . Meister, Erinnerung an Johannes Janssen (Frankfort, 1896) ; See also:Schwann, Johannes Janssen and See also:die Geschichte der deutschen Reformation (Munich, 1892) .

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