Heinrich Friedjung was an Austria

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n historian and journalist.

Friedjung was born in Roschtin , Moravia

Moravia

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 (then, Austrian Empire

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; today, Czech Republic

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). The son of a Jewish family grew up in Vienna

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, and studied history in Prague

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 and Berlin

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 under Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen

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 and Leopold von Ranke

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. He taught history and German language

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 at the Commercial Academy (Handelsakademie) in Vienna from 1873 to 1879; he was then fired for criticizing the government.

He subsequently became active in politics, notably for his liberal and German-nationalistic

German nationalism in Austria

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 views and support for the Greater German solution to the German question

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.

Friedjung died in Vienna.

Works

• aiser Karl IV. u. sein Antheil am geistigen Leben seiner Zeit, Vienna 1876
• er Ausgleich mit Ungarn. Politische Studie über das Verhältnis Österreichs zu Ungarn und Deutschland, 3 Auflagen, Leipzig 1876/77
• in Stück Zeitungsgeschichte, Vienna 1887
• er Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in Deutschland 1859 bis 1866 , zehn Auflagen, Stuttgart-Berlin 1897-1917 (Google books)
• enedeks nachgelassene Papiere , Leipzig 1901
• er Krimkrieg und die österreichische Politik, Stuttgart-Berlin 1911
• sterreich von 1848 bis 1860, Berlin 1908
• enkschrift aus Deutschösterreich, Vienna 1915
• as Zeitalter des Imperialismus 1884 bis 1914, 3 vol., Berlin 1919-1923
• istorische Aufsätze , 2 vol., Stuttgart- Berlin,1917–1919