Portrait of Carl von Rotteck (1775–1840), historian, politician, and leading representative of political liberalism in Baden. Together with Carl Welcker, he edited the Staats-Lexikon, a detailed compendium of social and political terminology that exerted great influence on the political climate in Germany before the Revolution of 1848–49. Engraving by Carl Ludwig Frommel, undated.
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