Born in 1814, died in 1877; graduated from Harvard in 1831;
studied at Goettingen and Berlin; returned to America in 1834
and admitted to the bar, but soon took up the study of
history; United States minister to Austria in 1861-68, and
to Great Britain in 1869-70; published his "Rise of the
Dutch Republic" in 1856, "History of the United Netherlands"
in 1860-67, and "John of Barneveld" in 1874.
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