Lappenberg

Lappenberg, JOHANN MARTIN, a German historian, was born 30th July 1794, in Hamburg, and pursued historical and political studies in Edinburgh, London, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became the representative of his native city at the Prussian court in 1820, and in 1823 was appointed keeper of the archives to the Hamburg senate, an appointment which he held for forty years. He died at Hamburg on 28th November 1865. The book by which he is best known is the careful and painstaking Geschichte von England (2 vols. 1834-37), which was continued by Pauli (3 vols. 1853-58), and translated into English by B. Thorpe (3 vols. 1845-57). Besides this Lappenberg completed Sartorius' History of the Origin of the German Hansa (2 vols. 1830), wrote books on the history of Heligoland and the Steelyard in London, and edited valuable historical documents relating to Hamburg and Bremen, and old chroniclers, such as Thietmar of Merseburg, Arnold of Lübeck, &c.—these latter for Pertz's Monumenta Germaniæ Historica. See Memoir by E. H. Meyer (1867).