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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Francis Lieber
Born: March 18, 1798
Died: October 2, 1872 (aged 74)
Bio: Francis Lieber, known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher. He edited an Encyclopaedia Americana.
Known for:
- Encyclopedia Americana (1829)
- Legal and Political Hermeneutics (1839)
- Civil liberty and self-government