Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz

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Image:Johann wilhelm von archenholz.jpg Image:Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz.jpg Johann Wilhelm Archenholz (1741-1812), born in Langfuhr (Wrzeszcz) near Danzig (Gdańsk), was a Prussian <ref name="Prussian Historian"> Hans Kohn (April 1951). "The Eve of German Nationalism (1789-1812)". Journal of the History of Ideas 12 (2): 256-284. </ref><ref name="Prussian officer JW von Archenholz"> Buchan, James (December 1 2003). Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind (Hardcover) (in English), HarperCollins Publishers, 448. ISBN 0060558881. </ref><ref name="Prussian Historian JWv Archenholz"> Robert Shoemaker (May 2001). "Male honour and the decline of public violence in eighteenth-century London". Social History 26 (2): 190-208. </ref><ref name="German Historian2"> James Schmidt (February 1998). "Cabbage Heads and Gulps of Water: Hegel on the Terror". Political Theory 26 (1): 4-32. </ref><ref name="German Historian"> Marcia Pointon (March 2001). ""Surrounded with Brilliants": Miniature Portraits in Eighteenth-Century England". Art Bulletin 83 (1): 48-71. </ref> Professor of History and a publicist. His book about the history of the Seven Years of Silesian War (1756-63) was the basis for many reprints, as well as for school books. Archenholz commissioned a Berlin artist, Johann Friedrich Bolt, to produce a copper etching for Archenholz's History of Gustav Vasa of the famous Swedish Nobility.

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Annalen der britischen Geschichte: d. Jahrs ... (1.1789 - 20.1800). Olms, Hildesheim 1997 (Reprint of the Tübingen edition from 1790–1800)
Die Engländer in Indien. Dyk, Leipzig 1.1786–3.1788
England und Italien. Winter, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-8253-0110-9 (Volume 1–3, Reprint of the Leipzig edition from 1785)
Gemälde der preussischen Armee vor und in dem siebenjährigen Kriege. Saur, Munich 1990 (Reprint of the Berlin edition 1791)
Geschichte der Flibustier. Edition Fumfei, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-86172-008-6 (Reprint of the Tübingen edition 1803)
Geschichte Gustavs Wasa, König von Schweden. Saur, Munich 1990/94 (Reprint of the Tübingen edition from 1801)
Geschichte der Verschwörung des Fiesco i.J. 1547. s. n., Berlin 1791
Geschichte des Papstes Sixtus V. s. n., Berlin 1791
Geschichte des siebenjährigen Krieges in Deutschland von 1756 bis 1763. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1982, ISBN 3-7648-1203-6 (Reprint of the Karlsruhe editon from 1791)
Historische Bemerkungen über die große sittliche Revolution im 16. Jahrhundert. s. n., Berlin 1791
Historisches Taschenbuch für Damen. Saur, München 1990/1994 (Reprint of the Berlin edition from 1791)
Kleine historische Schiften. Schmieder, Karlsruhe 1791
Krieg in der Vendée. Dyk, Leipzig 1794 (Band 1–2)
Litteratur und Völkerkunde. Göschen, Leipzig 1.1782–5.1786
Die Pariser Jacobiner in ihren Sitzungen. Saur, Munich 1991 (Reprint of the Hamburg edition from 1793)
Minerva - Ein Journal historischen und politischen Inhalts, Hamburg 1792 - 1856
Miscellen zur Geschichte des Tages. Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg im Taunus 1979 (Reprint of the Hamburg edition from 1795)
Neue Litteratur und Völkerkunde. Olms, Hildesheim 1997 (Reprint of the Leipzig edition from 1.1787 to 5.1791)
Rom und Neapel. Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 1990 (Reprint of the Leipzig edition from 1790)