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Routledge Revivals Treitschke’s Origins of Prussianism Heinrich Von Treitschke (1834-1896) was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century. An ardent admirer of Prussianism, Treitschke was also deeply anti-Semitic and anti-socia- list. This translation by Eden and Cedar Paul of The Origins of Prus- sianism, published in 1942 and reissued in 1969, made Treitschke’s 1862 classic essay available in English for the first time. It is a fasci- nating account of the thirteenth-century colonization of Old Prussia by the Teutonic Knights and the unification of Germany, which high- lights his most prominent beliefs in the value of the State and the superiority of the German race. Treitschke’s essay will fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of Old Prussia and nineteenth-century German politics and academic thought. This page intentionally left blank Treitschke's Origins of Prussianism The Teutonic Knights Heinrich von Treitschke Translated by Eden & Cedar Paul /~-~" :, 0~ \ ) Routledge \~ ~ '.i Taylor&FrancisGroup ~I"v~\. Firstpublishedin1942 Reissuedin1969 byGeorgeAllen&UnwinLtd Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2013byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1942,1969GeorgeAllen&UnwinLtd All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now knownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin any informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletocontact. ALibraryofCongressrecordexistsunderLCcontrolnumber:68009588 ISBN13:978-0-415-70681-0(hbk) ISBN13:978-1-315-88726-5(ebk) Treitschke's Origins of Pruss ian ism (The Teutonic Knights) translated by EDEN & CEDAR . PAUL London George Allen & Unwin Ltd First published 1942 All rights reserved PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS, LTD., HERTFORD The German original of this work, entitled Das deutsche Ordensland Preussen, was published in 1862, the year when Bismarck became minister-president of Prussia. It noW appears for the first time in English. n a r T s'' ' n rs' torors' ors'ors Traran latonslanslattorsslatnslat sa an nra aa aTr rr rT TT T ' s r o ' t s a r n Transl slators' nslators' ranslato ra anrs' ras' T Translators' Translators' Translators' TrTranslatoanslators' TranTranslators' sTranslators' latoranslators' sTranslators' T' Translatoranslators' anslators' rs' ranTran Tr nslators' 's r'sortoatlasnTr TrTrnslators' Tran slato ran a lsa a Tr nraT Tr n r a T r Translators' Preface :Heinrich von Treitschke, the author of this very remarkable study of the colonization of Old Prussia by the Teutonic Knights (substantially an account of the origins of Prussianism), was born at Dresden in 1834 and died at Berlin in 1896, before com. . pleting his most famous work, History of Germarry in the Nineteenth Century, which he carried on only to 1847. Tha.t was translated into English and published here during the war of 1914-1918, in seven volumes. The present essay was penned in 1862. In Y01,lth Treitschke had liberal leanings which made it impossible for him to begin his professorial career in Saxony, and he was still unacademic when he wrote Das deutsche Ordensland Preussen. But his liberalism was never more than skin-deep-never "radical." Besides being an enthusiastic admirer of Prussianism, he was bitten by the antisemitism which has long been one of the curses of Germany. The fact that the two most prominent German socialists among his contemporaries in youth, Marx and Lassalle, were both of Jewish extraction, may have contributed to Treitschke's hatred of sociaJism. B1,lt antisemitism apart, there was enough 7
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