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Jakob Venedey (1805–1871)
Venedey, Jakob (ven’e-dī). A German miscellaneous writer; born at Cologne, May 24, 1805; died at Badenweiler, Feb. 8, 1871. He wrote: ‘Days of Travel and Rest in Normandy’ (1838); ‘France, Germany, and the Holy Alliance’ (1842); ‘Germans and Frenchmen according to their Languages and their Proverbs’ (1842); ‘John Hampden’ (1843); ‘Ireland’ (1844); ‘History of the German People’ (4 vols., 1854–62); ‘Machiavelli, Montesquieu, and Rousseau’ (2 vols., 1850); ‘Frederick the Great and Voltaire’ (1859); ‘Biographies’ of Washington (1862), Franklin (1863), Stein (1868); ‘The German Republicans under the French Republic’ (1870).