About Wilhelm Arndt
Lived 1838 – 1895 (aged 57). Wilhelm Arndt was a German medievalist, historian, university teacher and palaeographer.
Wilhelm Ferdinand Arndt (27 September 1838, Lobsens, Posen, Prussia – 10 January 1895) was a German historian.
Biography He graduated from the University of Göttingen (PhD 1861) and became connected with the University of Leipzig (privatdozent, 1875/76; associate professor of auxiliary sciences of history, 1876–94).
Works For many years he was a collaborator on the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica (1862–75).
His chief works are: Kleine Denkmäler aus der Merowingerzeit (“Small monuments from Merovingian times,” 1874) Schrifttafeln zur Erlernung der lateinischen Paläographie (“Tables of characters for the study of Latin paleography,” 1874, 3d ed., 1898)
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Who was Wilhelm Arndt?
German historian (1838–1895)
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Wilhelm Arndt was born on 27 September 1838 in Province of Posen.
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Wilhelm Arndt died on 10 December 1895 in Leipzig.
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Wilhelm Arndt was a medievalist, historian, university teacher and palaeographer.
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Wilhelm Arndt was German.
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