List of Famous people with last name Archenholz
Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz
First Name Johann
Last Name Archenholz
Died on February 28, 1812
Born in Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Johann Wilhelm Archenholz was born in Langfuhr (Wrzeszcz) near Danzig (Gdańsk) on 3 September 1741. He was a Prussian officer, Professor of History and a publicist. His book about the history of the Seven Years' War (1756–63) was the basis for many reprints, as well as for school books. Archenholz commissioned a Berlin artist, Johann Friedrich Bolt, to produce a copper etching for Archenholz's History of Gustav Vasa of the famous Swedish Nobility. He died in Öjendorf on 28 February 1812, where the street Archenholzstraße and a school called "Grundschule Archenholzstraße" is named after him today.
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