RAUMER, FRIED. LUDW. GEORG TON, a noted German historical writer, was h. on May 14, 1781, in Worlitz, near Dessau; studied law and political economy at Halle and Gottingen; filled different law appointments (1806-11); and in the last-mentioned year was named professor at Breslau. In 1819 he was called to Berlin as professor of history and -political economy. Among his writings may be mentioned: Sechs Dialoge flier Krieg and Handel (180.0); Des Britlische Besteuerungssystem (Bed., 1810); The Orations of yEschines and Demosthenes de Corona (Bed. 1811); OCI. Emoulatimies ad Tabulas Gene alvicas Ara5am et Turcarum (Heidelb., 1811); Handbuch merlexiirdiger Stellen a as den L•t. Geschichtschreibern des Mittelalters (Handbook of Remarkable Passages in the Latin historians of the Midlle Ages, Brest. 1813); Voriesungen Geschichte (Lectures mi Ancient History, 2 vols., Leip. 1847); Geschichte der Hohenstaufen and ihrer Zeit (His tory of the Hohenstaufen Dynasty and their Time, 6 vols., Leip. 1823-25); Ueber die gochiehtliche der Begriffe von Becht Stoat end (On the Historical D:velopment of the Id has of Law, State, and Politics, 2d ed., Leip. 1832); Prussian Hanteipal.Law (Leip. 1828); Briefe aus Paris un,d- Frankreich, 1830 (2 vols., Leip. 1831);
B•iefe aus Paris zur Erldulerung des Geschichte des 161/1- wad 17th Jahrh. (2 vols., Leip. 1811); Gesehichte Europas melt dean End,e des 15 Jahrh. (History of Europe from theEnd of this 15th Century, vols. 1-8, Leip., 1832-50); England, 1835 (2 vole., Leip., 1836); Eng in al, 1841 (3 vols., Leip. 1842); Beitrilfie zur Neuern Geschichte aus dean Brit. Museum, etc. (5 vols., Leip. 1836-39); Italie : Beitrage zur Kenntnissdies is Landes (2 Leip. 1840); De Vereinigten &oaten Von, ffordamerilca (2 vols., Leip. 1845); AntiquarischeBritfe(Leip. 1811); Handbuch zur Geschichte der Literality (1864-66). He also edited the llistorischus Thsehenbuch, etc. The unfavorable reception of an oration of Raumer in honor of king Frederick II. compelled him, in 1847, to resign the secretaryship of the academy of sciences at Berlin. Raumer was a member of the Frankfort parliament, where lie belonged to the right center. Subsequently he became ambassador at Paris, and then member of the first chamber at Berlin. In 1853 he became professor emeritus at the university of Berlin. He died in June, 1873.