Institution
Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
The Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences was founded in Munich in 1858 by Maximilian II of Bavaria, with the historian Leopold von Ranke as its first chairman. It became one of the leading institutions of German historical scholarship, publishing editions of sources such as the records of the imperial diets and the great national biography, the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
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