The New International Encyclopædia/Loebell, Johann Wilhelm

LOEBELL, lẽ'bel, Johann Wilhelm (1786-1863). A German historian, born in Berlin, and educated at Heidelberg and at Berlin under Wolf and Böckh. From 1814 to 1829 he taught in the military academies at Breslau and Berlin, and then became professor of history at Bonn. His best-known work is the revision of Becker's Weltgeschichte (1836-38). He also wrote Gregor von tours und seine Zeit (2d ed. 1869); Weltgeschichte in Umrissen und Ausführungen (Part I., 1846); Die Entwicklung der deutschen Poesie von Klopstocks erstem Auftreten bis zu Goethes Tode (1856-65) and an anonymous attack on Ultramontanism, Historische Briefe (1861). Consult Bernhardt and Noorden, Zur Würdigung Loebells (Brunswick, 1864).