Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Heinrich von Treitschke
Born: September 15, 1834
Died: April 28, 1896 (aged 61)
Bio: Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke was a nationalist German historian, political writer and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire.
Known for:
- History of Germany in the nineteeth century
- Treitschke: His Life and Works
- Treitschke's Origins of Prussianism (the Teutonic Knights)
- Germany, France, Russia, and Islam








