Burcardus GOTTHELF STRUVIUS

Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (Latin: Burcardus Gotthelffius Struvius) was a scholarly German librarian and polymath-historian who spent most of his academic career at the University of Jena.[3] He is best known for his four-volume history of Germany, first published in 1712 and later expanded as the 'Corpus historiae Germanicae,' which was also translated into German as the 'Erläuterte teutsche Reichs-Historie.'[3]