Max Duncker

Max Duncker (1811–1886) was a German historian and politician. Born in Berlin, the son of a publisher, he was imprisoned for a time as a student for his part in a nationalist fraternity, then taught history at Halle and Tübingen. He sat in the Frankfurt National Assembly of 1848 and later in the Prussian parliament, worked as a political adviser to the Prussian crown prince, and from 1867 directed the Prussian state archives. His principal work, the History of Antiquity, covered the ancient Near East, India, Persia and early Greece and was translated into English by Evelyn Abbott in six volumes.