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253:, or at least, of its non-German parts. Prussia was to provide the emperor, but at the same time—and in this lay the doctrinaire weakness of the system—was to give up its separate existence, consecrated by history, in the same way as the other states. When, therefore, Frederick William IV, without showing any anxiety to bind himself by the conditions laid down at Frankfurt, concluded with Denmark the seven months truce of Malmö (26 August 1848), Dahlmann proposed that the national parliament should refuse to recognize the truce, with the express intention of clearing up once for all the relations of the parliament with the court of Berlin. The motion was passed by a small majority (September 5); but the members of Dahlmann's party were just those who voted against it, and it was they who on September 18 reversed the previous vote and passed a resolution accepting the truce, after Dahlmann had failed to form a ministry on the basis of the resolution of the 5th, owing to his objection to the Radicals. 28: 374: 261:. The king's refusal came as less of a surprise to him than to most of his colleagues. He counted on being able to compel recognition of the constitution by the moral pressure of the consent of the people. It was only when the attitude of the Radicals made it clear to him that this course would lead to a revolution, that he decided, after a long struggle, to retire from the national parliament (21 May). 272:(1850). But finally, convinced that for the moment all efforts towards the unity of Germany were unavailing, he retired from political life, though often pressed to stand for election, and again took up his work of teaching at Bonn. His last years were, however, saddened by illness, bereavement and continual friction with his colleagues. His death followed an apoplectic fit. 177:
around 1829 he had the opportunity of working in the same spirit. As confidant of the duke of Cambridge, he was allowed to take a share in framing the Hanoverian constitution of 1833, which remodelled the old aristocratic government in a direction which had become inevitable since the July revolution
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duchies, as against Denmark, and of their close connexion with Germany. It was he upon whom the Danes afterwards threw the blame of having invented the Schleswig-Holstein question; certainly his activities form an important link in the chain of events which eventually led to the solution of 1864. So
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Dahlmann afterwards described this as the decisive turning-point in the fate of the parliament. He did not immediately give up hope. Though he took little active part in parliamentary debates, he was very active on commissions and in party conferences, and it was largely owing to him that a German
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revolutions, which, though of less scientific value, exercised a decisive influence upon public opinion by their open advocacy of the system of constitutional monarchy. As a teacher too he was much beloved. Though no orator, and in spite of a personality not particularly amiable or winning, he
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doctrine of the Christian state, Dahlmann took as his premises the circumstances as he found them, and evolved the new out of the old by a quiet process of development. Moreover, in the inevitable conflict with the Danish crown his upright point of view and his German patriotism were further
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of Aristophanes. But he was also interested in modern literature and philosophy; and the troubles of the times, of which he had personal experience, aroused in him a strong feeling of German patriotism, though throughout his life he was always proud of his connection with Scandinavia, and
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far as this interest affected himself, the chief profit lay in the fact that it deepened his conception of the state, and directed it to more practical ends. Whereas at that time mere speculation dominated both the French
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constitution was at last evolved, and that Frederick William IV was elected hereditary emperor (28 March 1849). He was accordingly one of the deputation which offered the crown to the king in
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offered him in vain the post of envoy to the diet of the confederation. Naturally, too, he was elected to the national assembly at
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produced a profound impression upon young men by the pregnancy of his expression, a consistent logical method of thought based on
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In 1815 he obtained, in addition to his professorate, the position of secretary to the perpetual deputation of the estates of
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When the revolution of 1848 broke out, the "father of German nationality", as the provisional government at
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He remained one of the chief promoters of the well-known conference of the imperial party at
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Quellenkunde der deutschen Geschichte nach der Folge der Begebenheiten geordnet
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declared the constitution invalid, Dahlmann inspired the famous protest of the
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of the town, intended him to study theology, but Friedrich preferred classical
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In 1809, on the outbreak of war in Austria, Dahlmann, together with the poet
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Politik, auf den Grund und das Mass der gegebenen Zustände zurückgeführt
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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called him, found himself the centre of universal interest. Both
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Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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appointed him in October 1842 to a professorship at the
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war into a German one. This hope was shattered by the
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Friedrich Dahlmann

Wismar
Bonn
historian
politician
Hanseatic
Sweden
burgomaster
philology
University of Copenhagen
University of Halle
The Clouds
Gustavus Adolphus
Heinrich von Kleist
Dresden
Bohemia
Battle of Aspern
Austrian
defeat of Wagram
Denmark
Wittenberg
Latin
Kiel
Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch
Schleswig-Holstein
Elbe
Liberalism
Karl Ludwig von Haller
Romanticist

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