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ALFRED VON REUMONT (1808-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 206 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED VON See also:REUMONT (1808-1887)  , See also:German See also:scholar and diplomatist, the son of See also:Gerhard See also:Reumont (1765-1829), was See also:born on the 15th of See also:August 18o8 and was named See also:Alfred after the See also:English See also:king, Alfred the See also:Great . Educated at the See also:universities of See also:Bonn and See also:Heidelberg, he obtained a position in See also:Florence through the See also:influence of an Englishman, See also:William See also:Craufurd, but soon he entered the Prussian See also:diplomatic service and was employed in Florence, in See also:Constantinople and in See also:Rome . He also spent some See also:time in the See also:Foreign See also:Office in See also:Berlin . From 1851 to 186o he represented his See also:country in Florence . Reumont was the friend and'adviser of See also:Frederick William IV . In 1879 he founded the A achener Geschichtsverein, and having spent his concluding years at Bonn and at See also:Aix-la-Chapelle, he died in the latter See also:city on the 27th of See also:April 1887 . Reumont's numerous writings See also:deal mainly with See also:Italy, in which country he passed many years of his See also:life . On the See also:history of Florence and of See also:Tuscany he wrote Tavole cronologiche e sincrone della storia fiorentina (184T ; Supplement, 1875) ; Geschichte Toscanas seit dem Ende See also:des florentinischen Freistaats (See also:Gotha, 1876-77) ; and Lorenzo de' See also:Medici (See also:Leipzig, 1874, and again 1883) . This last See also:book has been translated into English by R . See also:Harrison (1876) . He remembered his connexion with Florence when he wrote Romische Briefe von einem Florentiner (Leipzig, 1840-44), and his See also:residence in Rome was also responsible for his Geschichte der Stadt Rom (3 vols., 1867-70) . Turning his See also:attention to the history of See also:Naples, he wrote See also:Die Carafe von See also:Maddaloni: Neapel unter spanischer Herrschaft (1851; Eng. trans., 1854), and more See also:general See also:works on See also:Italian history are: Beitrage zur italienischen Geschichte (6 vols., Berlin, 1853-57), and Charakterbilder aus der neueren Geschichte Italiens (1886) .

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biographical in their nature are: Die Jugend Caterinas de' Medici (1854), which has been translated into See also:French by A . Baschet (1866) ; -Die Grafin von See also:Albany (186o) and a life of his See also:close friend See also:Capponi, Gino Capponi, ein Zeit- and Lebensbild (Gotha, 188o) . His Ganganelli: Papst Clemens XIV., See also:seine Briefe and seine Zeit (Berlin, 1847) is valuable for the relations between this See also:pope and the See also:Jesuits . Other works which may be mentioned are Zeitgenossen, Biografien and Charakteristiken (Berlin, 1862); Bibliografia del lavori pubblicati in Germania See also:sulla storia d'Italia (Berlin, 1863) ; Biographische Denkblbtter nosh personlichen Erinnerungen (Leipzig, 1878) ; and Saggi di storia e letteratura (Florence, 1880) . Reumont's other important See also:work, one which he was peculiarly fitted to write, was his Aus See also:Friedrich Wilhelms IV. gesunden and kranken Tagen (Leipzig, 1885) . See H . Huffer, Alfred von Reumont (See also:Cologne, 1904) ; and the same writer's See also:article in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, See also:Band See also:xxviii . (1889) .

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