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Albert Pfister
1839–1907
A Württemberg generalmajor who also wrote history, he turned military discipline and a deep interest in the past into books about German rulers and the 19th century. His work sits at the meeting point of biography, national history, and public life in imperial Germany.
1 Audiobook
The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776
by Albert Pfister, Johann Gottfried Seume
About the author
Born on May 6, 1839, in Münster near Mergentheim, Albert Pfister later became Albert von Pfister after being ennobled in 1888. He is remembered as both a Württemberg generalmajor and a writer, a combination that gave his historical books a practical, state-minded perspective.
Pfister wrote on major figures and periods of German history, including works on King Friedrich of Württemberg, Kaiser Wilhelm I, and 19th-century Germany. Library records and biographical databases list him not only as a military officer but also as a historian and man of letters, showing how seriously his writing was taken in his own time.
He died on October 19, 1907, in Trossingen. For listeners interested in older historical writing, his books offer a window into how educated German readers around 1900 understood monarchy, nationhood, and the recent past.