HURTER, FRIEDRICH von. - Historian, b. 19 March 1787 at Schaffhausen (Switzerland), d. 27 Aug. 1865 at Graz (Austria). He studied at Göttingen from 1804 to 1806. A Protestant pastor at Schaffhausen, he showed himself quite conciliatory toward Catholics; he therefore did not long enjoy the sympathies of Protestant circles: in 1841 he renounced his office and on 16 June 1844 converted to Catholicism.

A court historian at Vienna, he published in eleven volumes a work, still valuable today, on Emperor Ferdinand II (Geschichte Kaiser Ferdinands II. und seiner Eltern bis zu dessen Krönung in Frankfurt, Schaffhausen 1850-1860) and dealt with the life of Wallenstein (Beiträge zur Geschichte Wallenstein, 1855; Wallensteins vier letzte Lebensjahre, 1862). Wide renown was gained by his four-volume work: Geschichte Papst Innocenz's III. und seiner Zeitgenossen, Hamburg 1834-42, which was also translated into Italian.

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BIBL.: H. Hurter, F. von H. und seine Zeit, 2 vols., Graz 1876-77; F. X. Wegele, s. v. in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, XIII, pp. 430-44.

Silvio Furlani

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