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Giesebrecht, Wilhelm von
 (vĭl´hĕlm fsymboln gē´zsymbolbrĕkht) , 1814—89, German historian. A gifted student of Ranke, he later taught at the Univ. of Königsberg. His Geschichte der deutschen Kaiserzeit [history of the imperial period of Germany] (5 vol., 1855—88) remains a monument of scholarship as well as literature. It terminates with the reign of Emperor Frederick I.