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See also:AUGUST See also:LUDWIG VON See also:SCHLOZER (1735-1809)
, See also:German historian, was See also:born at Gaggstedt, in the See also:county of See also:Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, on the 5th of See also:July 1735
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Having studied See also:theology and See also:oriental See also:languages at the See also:universities of See also:Wittenberg and See also:Gottingen, he went in 1755 as a See also:tutor to See also:Stockholm, and after-wards to See also:Upsala; and while in See also:Sweden he wrote in See also:Swedish an See also:Essay on the See also:General See also:History of See also:Trade and of Seafaring in the most See also:Ancient Times (1758)
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In 1759 he returned to Gottingen, where he began the study of See also:medicine
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In 1761 he went to St See also:Petersburg with See also:Gerhardt See also:Friedrich See also:
He was " a journalist before the days of journalism, a traveller before that of travelling, a critic of authorities before that of political oppositions." His most important See also:works were his Ailgemeine nordische Geschichte, 2 vols
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(See also:Halle, 1772) and his See also:translation of the Russian chronicler See also:Nestor to the See also:year 98o, 5 vols
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(Gottingen, 1802—1809)
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He awoke much intelligent See also:interest in universal history by his Weltgeschichte See also:im Auszuge and Zusammenhange, 2 vols
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(2nd ed., Gottingen, 1792—1801); and in several works he helped to See also:lay the See also:foundations of statistical science
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He also produced a strong impression by his political writings, the Briefwechsel, 10 vols
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(1776—1782) and the Staatsanzeigen, 18 vols
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(1782—1793)
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Schlozer, who in 1769 married See also:Caroline See also:Roederer, daughter of Johann Georg Roederer (1726—1763), professor of medicine at Gottingen and See also:body physician to the See also: She died on the 12th of July 1825 (see See also:Reuter, Dorothea Schlozer, Gottingen, 1887) . Schlozer's son See also:Christian (1774-1831) was a professor at See also:Bonn, and published Anfangsgriunde der Staatswirthschaft (1804—1806) and his See also:father's Offentliches and Privat-Leben aus Originalurkunden (1828) . The youngest son, Karl von Schlozer, a See also:merchant and Russian See also:consul-general at Lubeck, was the father of Kurd von Schlozer (1822—1894), the historian and diplomatist, who in 1871 was appointed German See also:ambassador to the See also:United States and in 1882 to the Vatican, when he was instrumental in healing the See also:breach between See also:Germany and the papacy caused by the " May See also:Laws." See Zermelo, August See also:Ludwig SchlOzer (See also:Berlin, 1875) ; Wesendpnck, See also:Die Begriindung der neuern deutschen Geschichtsschreibung durch Gatterer and Schlozer (See also:Leipzig, 1876) and F . Frensdorff in Allgemeine deutsche Biog. vol. xxxi . |
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