Moritz Brosch was a Bohemian German historian

Historian

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 and professional English

English people

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 scholar. He was born on 7 April 1829 in Prague

Prague

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, Bohemia

Bohemia

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, Austro-Hungarian Empire which is now in the modern-day Czech republic

Czech Republic

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. He was educated in Prague and Vienna

Vienna

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, and became a journalist

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. Later he devoted himself to historical study, and he died on the 14 July 1907 at Venice

Venice

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, where he had resided for over thirty years.

Works

To the series Geschichte der europäischen Staaten Brosch contributed England

England

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 1509-1550 (6 vols., Gotha, 1884-1899), a continuation of the work of J.M. Lappenberg

Johann Martin Lappenberg

Johann Martin Lappenberg , was a German historian.-Biography:He was born at Hamburg, where his father, Valentin Anton Lappenberg , held an official position. He attended the Johanneum and the Akademisches Gymnasium of Hamburg. Like his father he studied medicine, but afterwards history, at the...

 and R. Pauli

Reinhold Pauli

Reinhold Pauli was a German historian of England, born in Berlin. He studied much in England, and became professor of History at Göttingen. He wrote Life of King Alfred, History of England from the Accession of Henry II to the Death of Henry VII, Pictures of Old England and Simon de Montfort....

, and Der Kirchenstaat (Gotha, 1880-1882). He gave further proof of his interest in English history by writing Lord Bolingbroke und die Whigs

British Whig Party

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 und Tories seiner Zeit (Frankfort, 1883), and Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

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 und die puritan

Puritan

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ische Revolution (Frankfort, 1886). He also wrote Julius II.

Pope Julius II

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 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

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 power" to vol. iii of the Cambridge Modern History

Cambridge Modern History

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(1904).

Further reading

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