Legacy
Duncker's eminent position among German historians rests mainly on his Geschichte des Alterthums (1st ed., 1852–1857; English translation by Evelyn Abbott, 1877–1882). He edited, with JG Droysen, Preussische Staatsschriften, Politische Correspondenz Friedrichs des Grossen, and Urkunden und Actenstucke zur Geschichte des Kurfürsten Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg.
To the period of his political activity belong Zur Geschichte der deutschen Reichsversammlung in Frankfurt (1849); Heinrich von Gagern (1850), in the series of Männer der Gegenwart; and the anonymous Vier Monate auswärtiger Politik (1851).
His other works include Origines Germanicae (1840); the lectures Die Krisis der Reformation (1845) and Feudalität und Aristokratie (1858); Aus der Zeit Friedrichs des Grossen und Friedrich Wilhelms III. Abhandlungen zur preussischen Geschichte (1876); followed after his death by Abhandlungen aus der griechischen Geschichte and Abhandlungen aus der neueren Geschichte (1887).
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