Wilhelm Junghans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German historian
Date of Birth: 03-May-1834
Place of Birth: LĂĽneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Date of Death: 27-Jan-1865
Profession: historian, university teacher, medievalist, regional historian
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Wilhelm Junghans
- Wilhelm Junghans (3 May 1834 – 27 January 1865) was a German historian who was a native of Lüneburg. He studied under Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806-1876) at the University of Bonn, and with Georg Waitz (1813-1886) at the University of Göttingen.
- In 1862 he was appointed professor at the University of Kiel, a position he held until his death in 1865 at the age of 30.
- At Kiel he was also secretary of the Schleswig-Holstein Historical Society. Junghans is remembered for his 1856 work involving the Merovingian kings Childeric I and Clovis I, titled "Die Geschichte der fränkischen Könige Childerich und Chlodovech, kritisch untersucht".
- This book was later translated into French by historian Gabriel Monod (1844-1912) and published as "Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech".
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