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Anton Gindely

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GINDELY, ANTON (1829-1892), Austrian historian, was born at Prague on Sept. 3, 1829. He studied at Prague and at Olmutz, and became professor of history at the university of Prague and archivist for Bohemia in 1862. He died at Prague on Oct. 24, 1892. Gindely's chief work is his Geschichte des dreis sig jdhrigen Krieges (Prague, 1869-80; Eng. trans. New York, 1884) ; and his historical work is mainly concerned with the period of the Thirty Years' War. Among his numerous works are: Geschichte der bohmischen Briider (Prague, 1857-58) ; Rudolf II. and seine Zeit (1862-68), and a criticism of Wallenstein, Waldstein wiihrend seines ersten Generalats (2 vols. 1886) . He wrote a history of Bethlen Gabor in Hungarian, and edited the Monumenta historiae Bohemica. Gindely's posthumous work, Geschichte der Gegenreformation in Bohmen, was edited by T. Tupetz (1894).

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