Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (died 1967)

Gerhard Ritter

German historian (1888–1967)

Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken. A Lutheran, he first became well known for his 1925 biography of Martin Luther and hagiographic…