WILHELM See also:

• WILHELM WATTENBACH (1819–1897)

WATTENBACH (1819–1897)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German historian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Ranzau in See also:

• HOLSTEIN
• HOLSTEIN, FRIEDRICH VON (1837–1909)

Holstein on the 22nd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1819 . He studied See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology at the See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities of See also:

• BONN

Bonn, See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen and See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, and in 1843 he began to See also:

• WORK

work upon the Monumenta Germaniae histories' . In 1855 he was appointed archivist at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau; in 1862 he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• HISTORY

history at See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, and ten years later professor at Berlin, where he was a member of the directing See also:

• BODY

body of the Monumenta and 'a member of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy . He died at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort on the 21st of September 1897 . See also:

• WATTENBACH, WILHELM (1819–1897)

Wattenbach was distinguished by his thorough knowledge of the See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

chronicles and other See also:

• ORIGINAL

original documents of the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, and his most valuable work was done in this See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• BOOK

book, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte See also:

• DES

des 13 . Jahrhunderts, is unrivalled as a See also:

• GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide to the See also:

• SOURCES

sources of the history of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany in the middle ages; this was first published in 1858, and has passed through several See also:

• EDITIONS

editions . Cognate See also:

• WORKS

works are his Anleitung zur lateinischen Palaographie (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1869, and again 1886) ; and Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter (Leipzig, 1871, and again 1896) . Wattenbach also wrote Beitrdge zur Geschichte der christlichen Kirche in Bohmen and Mahsen (See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, 1849); Geschichte des romischen Papsttums (Berlin, 1876) ; and Anleitung zur griechischen Palaographie (Leipzig, 1867, and again 1895) .