Life
After finishing the humanities at the colleges of Hall and Innsbruck, he studied history under Julius von Ficker at the University of Vienna. While still young he had become interested in history from Joseph Annegarn's "Weltgeschichte". In 1859 he was appointed lecturer on history at Innsbruck, where he became professor in 1863, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in 1867, full member in 1872, and in 1887 professor at the University of Vienna, succeeding Ottokar Lorenz.
Under Ficker he had learned critical accuracy, purity of style, and the importance of strictly impartial investigation. He had also acquired a comprehensive knowledge of diplomacy. In politics he was a liberal, but deeply religious.
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