Anton Gindely

Anton Gindely (Czech: Antonín Gindely, 3 September 1829, Prague – 24 October 1892) was a Bohemian historian, a son of a Hungarian German father and a Czech mother, born in Prague.

Antonín Gindely (1878)

He studied in Prague and in Olomouc, and, after travelling extensively in search of historical material, became professor of history at the German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague and archivist for Bohemia in 1862. He died in Prague.[1]

Gindely's chief work is his Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Krieges (Prague, 1869–1880), which has been translated into English (New York, 1884); and his historical work is mainly concerned with the period of the Thirty Years' War.[1]

Perhaps the most important of his numerous other works are:

  • Geschichte der böhmischen Brüder (Prague, 1857–1858)
  • Rudolf II. und seine Zeit (1862–1868)
  • A criticism of Wallenstein, Waldstein während seines ersten Generalats (1886)[1]

He wrote a history of Gabriel Bethlen in Hungarian, and edited the Monumenta historiae Bohemica. Gindely's posthumous work, Geschichte der Gegenreformation in Böhmen, was edited by T. Tupetz (1894).[1]

Notes
  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gindely, Anton". Encyclopædia Britannica. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 27.

References
  • Kamil Krofta: Antonín Gindely o české otázce r. 1879 a jeho poměr k rozdělení pražské university r. 1882. In 30 ČČH 1/1924, pp. 95–108.
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