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Wattenbach

WILHELM (vät'ten -bah), a German historian and palæographer; born in Ranzau, Holstein, Sept. 22, 1819; became Professor of History at Heidelberg, 1862, and 1873 in Berlin University. He was author of "Contributions to the History of the Christian Church in Bohemia and Moravia" (1849); "Introduction to Greek Palæography" (1867); " Introduction to Latin Palæography" (1869); "Writing in the Middle Ages" "Vacation Travels in Spain and Portugal" (1869); (187 "The Transylvanian Saxons" (1870); "The Inquisition against the Waldenses in Pomerania and in the Mark of Bran- "The Sect of the Brethren of the Free Spirit " (1887); "History of the Roman Papacy" (1876).

He died in Frankfort, Sept. 20, 1897.

JEAN ANTOINE WATTEAU

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