Karl Brandi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German medievalist and historian of modern age
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Place of Birth: Meppen, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Karl Brandi
- Karl Maria Prosper Laurenz Brandi (20 May 1868 – 9 March 1946) was a German historian.In 1890–91, he wrote his dissertation on the Reichenauer documents: Die Reichenauer Urkundenfälschungen, which served as Volume 1 of Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Abtei Reichenau.
- He followed his teacher to Berlin in 1891–95.
- The Munich Historical Commission directed him to complete the posthumous works on August von Druffel's contributions to imperial history and the Council of Trent, Monumenta Tridentina.
- In 1895 he completed his own habilitation in Göttingen.
- From 1902 until his retirement in 1936, and again, from the outbreak of World War II until shortly before his death, he held a professorship for German History at the University of Göttingen.
- His study of the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, maintaining it was an amalgamation of Burgundian and Spanish traditions is considered a ground breaking, although problematic, shift in the study of the importance of Charles' reign.
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