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{{Short description|German historian (1822–1903)}}
[[File:Onno Klopp (um 1860).jpg|thumb|upright|Onno Klopp (about 1860)]]
[[File:Onno Klopp (um 1900).jpg|thumb|upright|Onno Klopp (about 1900)]]
'''Onno Klopp''' (9 October 1822 in [[Leer, Lower Saxony|Leer]], [[Kingdom of Hanover]] – 9 August 1903 in [[Penzing (Vienna)|Penzing]], Austria) was a German historian, best known as the author of ''Der Fall des Hauses Stuart'' (The Fall of the [[House of Stuart]]), the fullest existing account of the later [[Stuarts]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}  He is also known as one of the few German historians who denigrated [[Frederick the Great]].<ref>[[G. P. Gooch]], ''Frederick the Great: The Ruler, the Writer, the Man'' (1947) pp 359-63</ref>
==Life==
Klopp was educated at the universities of [[University of Bonn|Bonn]], [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Berlin]] and [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen]] (1841–1845). For a few years, he was a teacher at Leer and at [[Osnabrück]]. In 1858, he settled at [[Hanover]], where he became intimate with [[George V of Hanover|King George V]], who made him his Archivrat. Thoroughly disliking [[Prussia]], he was in hearty accord with George in resisting the empire's aggressive policy.  After the annexation of Hanover in 1866 he accompanied the exiled king to [[Hietzing]]. He became a [[Roman Catholic]] in 1874. He died at [[Penzing (Vienna)|Penzing]], near [[Vienna]], in 1903. Klopp is best known as the author of ''Der Fall des Hauses Stuart'' (Vienna, 1875–1888), the fullest existing account of the later [[Stuarts]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
==Works==
His ''Der König Friedrich II. und seine Politik'' (Schaffhausen 1867) and ''Geschichte Ostfrieslands'' (Hanover, 1854–1858) show his dislike of Prussia. His other works include ''Der dreissigjährige Krieg bis zum Tode Gustav Adolfs'' (Paderborn, 1891–1896); a revised edition of his ''Tilly im Dreißigjährigen Krieg'' (Stuttgart, 1861); a life of [[George V of Hanover|George V]], ''König Georg V.'' (Hanover, 1878); ''Das Jahr 1683'' (1882); and ''Phillipp Melanchthon'' (Berlin, 1897). He edited ''Corrispondenza epistolare tra Leopoldo I. imperatore ed il P. Marco d'Aviano cappuccino'' (Gratz, 1888). Klopp also wrote much in defence of George V and his claim to Hanover, including the ''Offizieller Bericht über die Kriegsereignisse zwischen Hanover und Preussen im Juni 1866'' (Vienna, 1867), and he edited the works of [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] in eleven volumes.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>Die Werke von Leibniz. Reihe 1: Historisch-politische und staatswissenschaftliche Schriften, Hannover, 1864-84</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Klopp, Onno|volume=15|page=847}}
==External links==
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*{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Klopp, Onno|year=1905 |short=x}}
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