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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Franz von Löher (1818–1892)

Löher, Franz von (lė’er). A German miscellaneous writer; born at Paderborn, Oct. 15, 1818; died at Munich, March 1, 1892. He visited the United States and Canada in 1846, to gather material for a history of the Germans in America, and wrote ‘Significance of the German Race in the World’s History’ (1847); ‘History of the Germans in America’ (1848). He wrote also: ‘Land and People in the Old and New Worlds’ (1854); ‘The Magyars and Other Hungarians’ (1874); ‘Cyprus’ (1878); and many other sketches of history and notes of travel.