Karl Dändliker

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Karl Dändliker (born May 6, 1849 in Elsau , † September 14, 1910 in Küsnacht ) was a Swiss historian .

Life

The son of Karl Dändliker, pastor in Rorbas , and Marie b. Ulrich attended high school in Zurich. He studied history from 1868 to 1870 at the University of Zurich , where he heard among others Max Büdinger and Georg von Wyss , and from 1870 to 1871 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate with a work on the Roman historian Herodian .

In 1872 he worked as a teacher of history and geography at the Küsnacht teacher training college . He completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich in 1875 and was appointed Associate Professor of Swiss Constitutional History and Zurich History in 1887 .

Dändliker wrote, among other things, a three-volume history of Switzerland (1884-1900) and textbooks for secondary and middle schools on general and Swiss history.

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