Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

Who was Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg?

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg, Austrian historian, was born in Vienna, and in 1865 became professor of history at the university of Lemberg.

In 1871 he removed to Innsbruck; in 1873 he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was historical tutor to the crown prince Rudolph. In 1891 he was made director of the Vienna institute for historical research, and in 1896 director of the imperial court library at Vienna. He resigned his professorial chair in 1897.

Zeissberg's writings deal mainly with the history of Austria and of Poland, and among them the following may be mentioned:

Arno, erster Erzbischof van Salzburg

Misico I. 1867

Die Kriege Kaiser Heinrichs II. mit Herzog Boleslaw I. von Polen

Die polnische Geschichtsschreibung des Mittelalters

Rudolf von Habsburg und der österreichische Staatsgedanke

Über das Rechtsverfahren Rudolfs von Habsburg gegen Ottokar von Böhmen

Der österreichische Erbfolgestreit nach dem Tode des Königs Ladislaus Posthumus, 1457-58

Dealing with more recent times he wrote:

Zur deutschen Kaiserpolitik Oesterreichs: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Revolutionsjahres 1795