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WILHELM ADOLF SCHMIDT (1812-1887), German historian, was born in Berlin on the 26th of September 1812. He became in 1851 professor of history at Zurich, and nine years later professor at Jena, where he died on the 10th of April 1887. He was a member of the Frankfort parliament in 1848, and of the German Reichstag from 1874 to 1876. His historical works deal mainly with modern German history, and the most important of them are: Preussens deutsche Politik (Berlin, 1850, and other editions); Geschichte der preussisch-deutschen Unionsbestrebungen (Berlin, 1851); Zeitgenossische Geschichten (Berlin, 1859); Elsass and Lothringen (Leipzig, 1859 and 1870); and Geschichte der deutschen Verfassungsfrage wahrend der Befreiungskriege and des Wiener Kongresses (Stuttgart, 1890), which was published after his death by A. Stern. Schmidt also wrote: Tableaux de la Revolution Francaise publics sur les papiers inedits du departement de la police secrete de Paris (Leipzig, 1867-1870); Pariser Zustande wahrend der Revolutionszeit (Jena, 1874-1876), translated into French by P. Viollet (Paris, 1880-1885); Das Perikleische Zeitalter (Jena, 1877-1879); Handbuch der griechischen Chronologie (Jena, 1888); and Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte (Leipzig, 1888).

See H. Landwehr, Zur Erinnerung an Adolf Schmidt (Berlin, 1887).