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A German miscellaneous writer; born at Cologne, May 24, 1805; died at Badenweiler, Feb. 8, 1871. He wrote: "Days of Travel and Rest in Normandy" (1838); "France, Germany, and the Holy Alliance" (1842); "Germans and Frenchmen according to their Languages and their Proverbs" (1842); "John Hampden" (1843); "Ireland" (1844); "History of the German People" (4 vols., 1854-62); "Machiavelli, Montesquieu, and Rousseau" (2 vols., 1850); "Frederick the Great and Voltaire" (1859); "Biographies" of Washington (1862), Franklin (1863), Stein (1868); "The German Republicans under the French Republic" (1870).