The New International Encyclopædia/Reuss, Rodolphe

REUSS, Rodolphe (1841—). An Alsatian historian, born in Strassburg and educated there, at Jena, at Berlin, and at Göttingen. He became professor at the gynmasium of Strassburg in 1865, and after the Franco-Prussian War resumed this position, retiring from the Protestant seminary. From 1872 to 1896 Reuss was librarian of the Strassburg library. In 1896 he was appointed professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. His historical writings in both French and German deal with Alsace; among them are: Beiträge zur Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Krieges im Elsass (1868); Vieux noms et rues nouvelles de Strasbourg (1883); and the important Alsace au XVIIIème siècle (1897 et seq.).