Droysen, Johann Gustav

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Droysen, Johann Gustav (yōhän` g

s`täf droi`zən), 1808–84, German historian. A member of the Frankfurt Parliament Frankfurt Parliament, 1848–49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution that swept the German states early in 1848. The parliament was called by a preliminary assembly of German liberals in Mar.
..... Click the link for more information. , he was a leading proponent of German unification under the leadership of his native Prussia. His Geschichte der preussischen Politik [political history of Prussia] (14 vol., 1855–86) poses the goal of German unification as the dominant theme of Prussian history.

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See his Outlines of the Principles of History (1858, tr. 1893, repr. 1967).

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