DAHLMANN, n, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPII (1785-1860). .A German historian and states man, born A1ay 13, 1785, at Wismar. His ear lier studies in Copenhagen and Halle were devoted to archieology and philology, but his attention was subsequently directed to political science and history. In 1812 he was made a professor in the University of Kiel, and in 1815 became secretary of the permanent committee of the Schleswig-Holstein clergy and nobility, in which capacity he opposed the Danish poliey concerning those duchies. He published several historical works, and in 1329 was appointed pro fessor of political science in Gottingen, where he published his valuable work, Quellenkunde dcr deutschrn Geschiehte (1st ed. 1830; reedited by Weitz, 1875. and subsequent editions). Dis missed from the university in 1837, with six of his colleagues, by King Ernest Augustus, on ac count of their protest against the abrogation of the Hanoverian Constitution, he went to Leipzig and afterwards to Jena, where he wrote his admirable Geschichte von Thinemark (Hamburg, 1840-43). In 1842 he became professor of his tory and political science at Bonn, and later on took a prominent part in the political affairs of Germany. At the outbreak of the Revolution,
in 1843, he was appointed deputy of Prussia in the Germanic Diet, and was the principal mem ber of the committee appointed to draft a new German constitution. He exerted his influence in the Frankfort. Parliament in favor of an heredi tary German empire, the dignity to inhere in the King of Prussia, hut his views were not ac cepted, either by King Frederick William IV. or the majority of the 'Parliament. After a less conspicuous parliamentary activity at Erfurt and Berlin, Dahlmann returned to his academic duties, to which he devoted himself till his death, December 5, 180. Besides the works mentioned above, he was the author of important histories of the English and French revolutions, of a work in two volumes on early Germanic history, and the editor of the Ditinarsh Chronicle. Consult: Springer, F. C. ihthinmnn (Leipzig, 1870-72) : Nasse. F. r. Dahlmann, an inaugural lecture (Kiel. 1885).