Sigmund Riezler or Siegmund Riezler (after 1900 von Riezler; 2 May or 5 May 1843 Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 - 28 January 1927 Ambach

Ehekirchen

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) was a German historian.

Biography

He was educated in Munich, and became a docent in 1869, and after ten years as head of the archives and library of Donaueschingen

Donaueschingen

Donaueschingen is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar Kreis. It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Danube ....

 was made court and city librarian in Munich, in 1883, and director of the Maximilianeum in 1885.

Works

His works, dealing for the most part with Bavaria

Bavaria

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n history, include: Das Herzogtum Bayern zur Zeit Heinrichs des Löwen (1867, with Karl Theodor von Heigel), Der Kreuzzug Kaiser Friedrichs I. (1870), the great Geschichte Bayerns (1878-99), Die bayrische Politik im Schmalkaldischen Kriege (1895), and Geschichte der Hexenprozesse in Bayern (1896).