Moritz Brosch

Doctor Moritz Brosch
Born	April 7, 1829(1829-04-07) Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	July 14, 1907(1907-07-14) (aged 78) Venice, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy
Ethnicity	German
Education	Journalism
Occupation	Historian, Journalist

Moritz Brosch (7 April 1829-14 July 1907) was a Bohemian German historian and professional English scholar.^[1] He was born on 7 April 1829 in Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire which is now in the modern-day Czech republic. He was educated in Prague and Vienna, and became a journalist. Later he devoted himself to historical study, and he died on the 14 July 1907 at Venice, where he had resided for over thirty years.^[2]

Works

To the series Geschichte der europäischen Staaten Brosch contributed England 1509-1550 (6 vols., Gotha, 1884-1899), a continuation of the work of J.M. Lappenberg and R. Pauli, and Der Kirchenstaat (Gotha, 1880-1882). He gave further proof of his interest in English history by writing Lord Bolingbroke und die Whigs und Tories seiner Zeit (Frankfort, 1883), and Oliver Cromwell und die puritanische Revolution (Frankfort, 1886). He also wrote Julius II. und die Gründung des Kirchenstaats (Gotha, 1878), while one of his last pieces of work was to contribute a chapter on "The height of the Ottoman power" to vol. iii of the Cambridge Modern History (1904).

See also

• Bohemia

References

1. ^ http://www.jstor.org/pss/550147
2. ^ http://books.google.ca/books?id=AqM8AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA193&ots=trmYs3yeH9&dq=Moritz%20Brosch%20school&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q=Moritz%20Brosch%20school&f=false

Further reading

• A.W. Ward in the English Historical Review, vol. xxii. (1907).

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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Name	Brosch, Moritz
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Date of birth	1829
Place of birth	Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Date of death	1907
Place of death	Venice, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy