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He was born at Ranzau in Holstein . He studied Philology at the universities of Bonn , Göttingen and Berlin , and in 1843 he began to work upon the '' Monumenta Germaniae Historica ''. In 1855 he was appointed archivist at Breslau ; in 1862 he became professor of history at Heidelberg , and ten years later professor at Berlin, where he was a member of the directing body of the ''Monumenta'' and a member of the Academy. He died at Frankfurt . Wattenbach was distinguished by his thorough knowledge of the chronicles and other original documents of the middle ages, and his most valuable work was done in this field.


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  • ''Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des XIII Jahrhunderts'' (1858), his principal book, a guide to the sources of the history of Germany in the middle ages, several editions.

  • ''Anleitung zur lateinischen Paläographie'' (Leipzig, 1869, and again 1886)

  • ''Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter'' (Leipzig, 1871, and again 1896)

  • ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der christlichen Kirche in Böhmen und Mähren'' (Vienna, 1849)

  • ''Geschichte des römischen Papsttums'' (Berlin, 1876)

  • ''Anleitung zur griechischen Paläographie'' (Leipzig, 1867, and again 1895).