RITTER HEINRICH

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• RITTER HEINRICH ZEISSBERG

ZEISSBERG  voN (1839—1899), Austrian historian, was born in Vienna on the 8th of July 1839, and in 1865 became professor of history at the university of Lemberg . In 1871 he removed to Innsbruck; in 1873 he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was historical tutor to the crown prince Rudolph . In 1891 he was made director of the Vienna institute for historical research, and in 1896 director of the imperial court library at Vienna . He resigned his professorial chair in 1897 and died on the 27th of May 1899 . Zeissberg's writings deal mainly with the history of Austria and of Poland, and among them the following may be mentioned:—Die polnische Geschichtsschreibung des Mittelalters (Leipzig, 1873) ; Arno, erster Erzbischof von Salzburg (Vienna, 1863) ; Die Kriege Kaiser Heinrichs II. mit Herzog Boleslaw I. von Palen (Vienna, 1868) ; Rudolf von Habsburg and der osterreichische Staatsgedanke (Vienna, 1882) ; Uber das Rechtsverfahren Rudolfs von Habsburg gegen Ottokar von Bohmen (Vienna, 1887); and Der osterreichische Erbfolgestreit nach dem Tode des Konigs Ladislaus Posthumus, 1457—58 (Vienna, 1879) . Dealing with more recent times he wrote :Zur deutschen Kaiser politik Oesterreichs: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Rez'olutionsjahres 1795 (Vienna, 1899) ; Zwei Jahre belgischer Geschichte 1791—92 (Vienna, 1891); Belgien unter der Generalstatthalterschaft Erzherzog Karls 1793—94 (Vienna, 1893—94); Erzherzog Karl von Oesterreich . Lebensbild (Vienna, 1895) ; and Franz Josef I . (Vienna, 1888) . He edited three volumes of the Quellen zur Geschichte der Deutschen Kaiser politik Oesterreichs wdhrend der fro:nzosischen Revolutionskriege 1790—1801 (Vienna, 1882—1885, 18go) . It is the principal centre of the silver-lead mining district, and has large smelting works .