Karl Hillebrand
Karl Hillebrand (17 September 1829 - 19 October 1884) was a German author.
Biography
He was born at
Karl Hillebrand became involved, as a student in
On the outbreak of the
Writings
Hillebrand wrote with facility and elegance in French, English and Italian, besides his own language. His essays, collected under the title Zeiten, Völker and Menschen (Berlin, 1874-1885), show clear discernment, a finely balanced cosmopolitan judgment and grace of style.
He undertook to write the Geschichte Frankreichs von der Thronbesteigung Ludwig Philipps bis zum Fall Napoleons III, but only two volumes were completed (to 1848) (2nd ed., 1881-1882). In French he published Des conditions de la bonne comedie (1863), La Prusse contemporaine (1867), Etudes italiennes (1868), and a translation of O. Müller's Griechische Literaturgeschichte (3rd ed., 1883).
In English, he published Public Instruction in the United States (1869) and his Royal Institution Lectures on German Thought during the Last Two Hundred Years (1880). He also edited a collection of essays dealing with Italy, under the title Italia (4 vols, Leipzig, 1874-1877).
Notes
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References
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. This work also cites Homberger.
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. This work also cites Homberger. .
- Anna Maria Voci: Karl Hillebrand. Ein deutscher Weltbürger. Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Roma 1. 2015, ISBN 978-88-95868-12-7
- Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hillebrand, Karl". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
- H. Homberger, Karl Hillebrand (Berlin, 1884)
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