Hans Delbrück

Who was Hans Delbrück?

Hans Delbrück was a German historian. Delbrück was one of the first modern military historians, basing his method of research on the critical examination of ancient sources, and using auxiliary disciplines, like demography and economics, to complete the analysis and the comparison between different epochs to trace the evolution of military institutions.

Delbrück's writings are chiefly concerned with the history of the art of war, his most ambitious work being his Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte. Other works are Die Perserkriege und die Burgunderkriege, Die Strategie des Perikles erläutert durch die Strategie Friedrichs des Grossen and Das Leben des Feldmarschalls Grafen Neithardt von Gneisenau.