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| Droysen, Johann Gustav |
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(y hän´ g s´täf droi´z n) (KEY) , 1808–84, German historian. A member of the Frankfurt Parliament, he was a leading proponent of German unification under the leadership of his native Prussia. His Geschichte der preussischen Politik [political history of Prussia] (14 vol., 1855–86) poses the goal of German unification as the dominant theme of Prussian history. | 1 | | See his Outlines of the Principles of History (1858, tr. 1893, repr. 1967). | 2 |
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