About Gottfried Gabriel Bredow
Lived 1773 – 1814 (aged 40). Gottfried Gabriel Bredow was a German historian, university teacher, head teacher, pedagogue and writer.
Gottfried Gabriel Bredow (14 December 17735 September 1814) was a German historian.
He was born at Berlin, and became successively professor at the universities of Helmstedt (1804), Frankfurt an der Oder and Breslau. He died at Breslau.
Bredow's principal works are Handbuch der alten Geschichte, Geographie und Chronologie (Eutin, 1799; English trans., London, 1827); Chronik des 17. Jahrhunderts (Altona, 1801); Entwurf der Weltkunde der Alten (Altona, 1816); Weltgeschichte in Tabellen (Altona, 1801; English trans. by J. Bell, London, 1820).
One known student was Johann Gottlieb Kunisch (1789–1852), teacher and author.
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Gottfried Gabriel Bredow was born on 14 December 1773 in Berlin.
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Gottfried Gabriel Bredow died on 5 September 1814 in Wrocław.
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Gottfried Gabriel Bredow was a historian, university teacher, head teacher, pedagogue and writer.
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