Sigmund von Riezler


Sigmund Riezler or Siegmund Riezler was a German historian.
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Biography

He was educated at the University of Munich, and became a docent in 1869, and after ten years as head of the archives and library of Donaueschingen was made court and city librarian in Munich, in 1883, and director of the Maximilianeum in 1885.

Works

His works, dealing for the most part with Bavarian history, include: Das Herzogtum Bayern zur Zeit Heinrichs des Löwen, Der Kreuzzug Kaiser Friedrichs I., the great Geschichte Baierns, Die bayrische Politik im Schmalkaldischen Kriege, and Geschichte der Hexenprozesse in Bayern.