Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss (31 July 1787 Frankfurt am Main - 10 February 1854 Frankfurt) was a German

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 historian

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 of freemasonry

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Biography

Kloss studied in Heidelberg and Göttingen, where he became one of the cofounders of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen

Corps Hannovera Göttingen

thumb|Bismarck 1836The Corps Hannovera Göttingen is one of the oldest German Student Corps, a Studentenverbindung or student corporation founded 18 January 1809 at the Georg August University of Göttingen by students like Georg Kloss. The name was chosen because the founders had their home...

. He practiced medicine in Frankfurt. His works, which are fundamental to the history of freemasonry, include: Bibliographie der Freimaurerei (Bibliography of Freemasonry, 1844); Freimaurerei in ihrer wahren Bedeutung (The true significance of freemasonry, 2d ed., 1855); Geschichte der Freimaurerei in England, Irland und Schottland (History of Freemasonry in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1848); and Geschichte der Freimaurerei in Frankreich (History of Freemasonry in France, 1852–53).