AUGUST

See also:

• AUGUST POTTHAST (1824—1898)

POTTHAST (1824—1898)  , German historian, was born at Hoxter on the 13th of August 1824, and was educated at Paderborn, Munster and Berlin . He assisted G . H . Pertz, the editor of the Monumenta Germaniae historica, and edited the Regesta pontificum romanorum, 1198—1304 (Berlin, 1874—1895) . From 1874 to 1894 he was librarian of the German Reichstag . Potthast is chiefly known through his monumental Bibliotheca historica medii aevi (1862), a guide to the sources of European history in the middle ages . The work, in the form of an index, gives particulars of practically all the historical writers of Europe and their work between 375 and 1500 . A new and enlarged edition appeared at Berlin in 1896 . Potthast died on the 13th of February 1898 .