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German Wiki says that he created the term "hellenism" for that particular period, but i'm not sure if he did not just introduce it in Germany...

I've started work on this article, to give it a new, broader look, plus citations, and some other elaborations. -- Auntieruth55 ( talk) 02:38, 12 June 2009 (UTC) reply

article quote: "his Outlines of the Principles of History, published 1858, translated 1893, was widely read throughout German universities.[5]"

This statement is probably wrong, the "Grundriß" (Outline) was reprinted only very few times until Droysen's son-in-law Hübner issued the first edition of the Historik-talks in 1937. Check out library and antiquarian bookshop catalogues and compare with the number of prints of other texts, e.g. Buckle's history of England, which Droysen heavily critizised for it's "materialistic" theory. Droysen's text was simply not available to most scholars and students who didn't received it from Droysen personally in those times. -- 194.94.133.4 ( talk) 15:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC) reply