Giesebrecht, WILHELM VON, historian, was born on 5th March 1814 in Berlin, and became professor of History at Königsberg in 1857, and in 1862 at Munich. He died in December 1889. His chief works are Geschichte der Deutschen Kaiserzeit (5 vols. 1855-82), coming down to 1164; Jahrbücher des Deutschen Reichs (1840); a translation of
Gregory of Tours (1851); Deutsche Reden (1871); Arnold von Brescia (1873).