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HEINRICH JULIAN SCHMIDT (1818-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 344 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIAN See also:SCHMIDT (1818-1886)  , See also:German journalist and historian of literature, was See also:born at See also:Marienwerder in See also:East See also:Prussia on the 7th of See also:March 1818, and after studying See also:history and See also:philosophy at the university of See also:Konigsberg was appointed, in 1842, to a mastership in the Luisenstadt Realschule in See also:Berlin . In 1847 he joined the editorial See also:staff of the Grenzboten in See also:Leipzig, and in the following See also:year became, with Gustav See also:Freytag, See also:joint owner of that periodical . In 1861 he removed to Berlin as editor-in-See also:chief of the Berliner allgemeine Zeitung, and in 1878 was rewarded for the journalistic services rendered to the See also:government, by a See also:pension from the See also:emperor See also:William I . He died at Berlin on the 27th of March 1886 . See also:Julian See also:Schmidt's See also:principal contributions to See also:literary history are Geschichte der Romantik See also:im Zeitalter der Revolution and Reslauration (1848); Geschichte der deutschen Nationalliteratur im 19 . Jahrhundert (1853); Geschichte See also:des geistigen Lebens in Deutschland von Leibniz bis auf Lessings See also:Tod (1861–1863) . These See also:works subsequently appeared as Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von Leibniz bis auf unsere Zeit (4 vols., 1886–1896) ; Schmidt also wrote a Geschichte der franzosischen Literatur seit der Revolution (1857), and a See also:biography of See also:Schiller (1859) .

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