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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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