WILHELM ADOLF

SCHMIDT (1812-1887)  , German historian, was born in Berlin on the 26th of September 1812 . He became in 1851 professor of history at Zurich, and nine years later professor at Jena, where he died on the loth of April 1887 . He was a member of the Frankfort parliament in 1848, and of the German Reichstag from 1874 to 1876 . His historical works deal mainly with modern German history, and the most important of them are: Preussens deutsche Politik (Berlin, 1850, and other editions) ; Geschichte der preussisch-deutschen Unionsbestrebungen (Berlin, 1851) ; Zeitgenossische Geschichten (Berlin, 1859) ; Elsass und Lothringen (Leipzig, 1859 and 187o) ; and Geschichte der deutschen Verfassungsfrage wdhrend der Befreiungskriege und des Wiener Kongresses (Stuttgart, 189o), which was published after his death by A . Stern . Schmidt also wrote: Tableaux de la Revolution FranQaise public's sur les pa piers inedits du departement de la police secrete de Paris (Leipzig, 1867–187o) ; Pariser Zustande wahrend der Revolutionszeit (Jena, 1874–1876), translated into French by P . Viollet (Paris, 1880-1885) ; Das Perikleische Zeitalter (Jena, 1877–1879); Handbuch der griechischen Chronologie (Jena, 1888) ; and Abhandlungen zur alien Geschichte (Leipzig, 1888) . See H . Landwehr, Zur Erinnerung an Adolf Schmidt (Berlin, 1887) .