DOVE, ALFRED (1844-1916), German historian, was born on April 4, 1844, in Berlin, and studied medicine and science at Heidelberg and Berlin. From 1870 he edited Grenzboten and then h a Neuen Reich. In 1S74 he became professor of history at Breslau and in 1884 at Bonn. In 1890 he edited the Samtliche jV erke of von Ranke, whose posthumous manuscript completing the Weltgeschichte he had already published and in 1891 the final volumes of Bismarck's speeches. Dove also wrote Deutsche Gesch. im Zeitalter Friedrichs des Grassen u.Joseph II. (1883); Kaiser Wilhelms geschichtl. Gestalt (1888) ; Grossherzog Fried rich von Baden als Landesherr and deutscher Furst (1902). He died at Freiburg on Jan. 19, 1916.