The New International Encyclopædia/Kluckhohn, August

KLUCKHOHN, klōōk'hōn, August (1832-93). A German historian. He was born at Bavenhausen and studied at Heidelberg and Göttingen. In 1858 he went to Munich to become one of the editors of Sybel's Historische Zeitschrift. In 1865 he was appointed professor of history at Munich, and in 1883 he went to the University of Göttingen. His works include: Geschichte des Gottesfriedens (1857); Wilhehn III., Herzog von Bayern-Landshut (1865); Friedrich der Fromme, Kurfürst von der Pfalz (1876-79); Luise, Königin von Preussen (1876); Blücher (1879); Ueber L. von Westenrieders Leben und Schriften (1890); and the posthumous Vorträge und Aufsätze (1894).