Background
Anton Gindely was born on the 3rd of September, 1829 in Prague, Czech Republic.
archivist educationist historian university professor
Anton Gindely was born on the 3rd of September, 1829 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Anton Gindely studied in Prague and in Olomouc.
Anton Gindely travelled extensively in search of historical material. He became professor of history at the German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague and archivist for Bohemia in 1862.
Gindely's chief work is his Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Krieges (Prague, 1869–1880), which has been translated into English (New York, 1884). And his historical work is mainly concerned with the period of the Thirty Years' War. Perhaps the most important of his numerous other works are, Geschichte der böhmischen Brüder (Prague, 1857–1858), Rudolf World War II und seine Zeit(1862–1868), and a criticism of Wallenstein, Waldstein während seines ersten Generalats (1886). He wrote a history of Bethlen Gabor in Hungarian, and edited the Monumenta historiae Bohemica. Gindely's posthumous work, Geschichte der Gegenreformation in Böhmen, was edited by T. Tupetz (1894).