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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Carl von Rotteck (1775–1840)

Rotteck, Carl Wenzeslaus Rodecker von (rot’ek). A German historian; born at Freiburg, Baden, July 18, 1775; died there, Nov. 26, 1840. His ‘Universal History’ (1813–27), and its minor compendium, ‘Universal History of the World’ (1830), exercised a great influence upon the middle classes of Germany.