Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann

Historian and politician, he played an active role in the events leading to the Unification of Germany. In 1812 he was called to the University of Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein), at the time under the Danish crown, where he became secretary to the perpetual deputation of the estates of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1829 he went to Gőttingen; he was one of the famous seven professors that protested against Ernst August I of Hanover who had declared the constitution invalid. In the years that followed he devoted himself to lecturing and composing his most famous works and in 1842 he was called to a professorship at the University of Bonn. He played a decisive role in the events of 1848, advocating the reunification of the German states under the Prussian sceptre.