
Language
en
Duration
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Series
Life Stories for Young People
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by D A Alexander, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2019-07-21
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1816–1890
Known for popular historical stories and biographies, this 19th-century German writer helped bring the past to life for a broad readership. His books often focused on figures and events from German and European history.
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Best remembered for making history accessible to young readers, this early German educator and historian wrote a popular world history for children that continued to circulate after his death. Though his life was brief, his work proved influential enough to be revised and reused by later historians.
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