BROSCH, MORITZ (I829-19o7), German historian, was born at Prague April 7 1829, and died July 14 1907, at Venice, where he had resided for over 3o years. To the series Geschichte der europaischen Staaten Brosch contributed England I5o9-185o (Gotha, 1884-99), a continuation of the work of J. M. Lappen berg and R. Pauli, and Der Kirchenstaat (Gotha, 188o-82). Other works on English history are Lord Bolingbroke and die Whigs and Tories seiner Zeit (Frankfurt, 1883), and Oliver Cromwell and die puritanische Revolution (Frankfurt, 1886).