The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Pflugk-Harttung, Julius Albert G. von

PFLUGK-HARTTUNG, pfloog' här'toong, Julius Albert G. von, German historian: b. Warnikow, Germany, 8 Nov. 1848. He was educated at Bonn, Berlin and Göttingen, accepted the chair of history in the University of Basel in 1883 which he held until 1893 when he was made head of the Secret State Archives at Berlin. He is an authority on mediæval and papal history and has published ‘Studien zur Geschichte Konrads II’ (1876-77); ‘Norwegen und die deutschen Seestädte’ (1887); ‘Krieg und Sieg 1870-71’ (1895); ‘Die Bullen der Päpste bis zum Ende des zwölften Jahrhunderts’ (1901); ‘Weltgeschichte’ (6 vols., 1907-10); ‘Das Befreiungsjahr 1813’ (1913); ‘Belle-Alliance-verbündetes Heer’ (1915). A number of his important works have been translated into English, among them ‘The Great Migration’ and ‘The Early Middle Ages — by Wright’ (Philadelphia 1902); and ‘The Franco-German War,’ by General Maurice (London 1900).