Frederick the Great : A Historical Profile

Ritter, Gerhard A.; Paret, Peter (translator)

ISBN 10: 0520027752 / ISBN 13: 9780520027756

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 1974

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Owner's stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, light wear on covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frederick the Great : A Historical Profile
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520027752
• ISBN 13: 9780520027756
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Germany

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Synopsis

GERHARD RITTER'S biography of Frederick the Great onglnated in a series of lectures, which were published with scarcely any revisions in 1936. In this translation, based on the third edition, published in 1954, Paret has tried to convey the hard and precise style that characterizes the German text, while eliminating some of the numerous adjectives and parallel phrases that a lecturer might have found useful for emphasis but which seem unnecessary on the printed page. With the author's agreement also excluded is the brief introduction and epilogue of the original, since they are addressed specifically to the German reader and to German conditions. Gerhard Ritter died in 1967, shortly after the translation was completed.

About the Author

Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (April 6, 1888  – July 1, 1967) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. Peter Paret is American military, cultural and art historian with a particular interest in German history.