Wuttke, HEINRICH

Wuttke, HEINRICH, historian, born at Brieg in Silesia, February 12, 1818, became professor at Leipzig in 1848. He also took an active interest in politics, and had to the last a bitter enmity to Prussia. He died at Leipzig, 14th June 1876. Besides books devoted to the history of Silesia (1842-43, and 1847), the three years of war, 1756-58 (1856), Poland and Germany (1847), the battle of Leipzig (1863), William of Orange (1864), he began a great work on the history of writing, of which unhappily he only lived to publish the first volume, Entstehung der Schrift (1872). In 1879 appeared Zur Vorgeschichte der Bartholomäusnacht.