Alexander Brückner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German historian
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Alexander Brückner
- Alexander Brückner (5 August 1834, Saint Petersburg – 15 November 1896, Jena) was a Baltic German historian who specialized in Russian studies.
- He was the father of geographer Eduard Brückner. He studied history and economics at the universities of Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in Heidelberg with a dissertation on the history of the Diet of Worms (1521).
- As a student, his instructors included Johann Gustav Droysen, Ludwig Häusser, Leopold von Ranke and Friedrich von Raumer.
- From 1861 to 1867 he served as a professor of history at the Imperial Law School in St.
- Petersburg, and afterwards was a professor of history at the universities of Odessa (from 1867) and Dorpat (1872–1891).
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