Anton Gindely, a German historian, born in Prague, Sept. 3, 1829. He became in 1853 professor of the German language and literature at the Bohemian Oberreahcliule in Prague, and in 1862 of Austrian history in the university of that city and archivist of Bohemia. He has published many historical works, including Rudolf II und seine Zeit (2 vols., Prague, 1862-,5), Monumenta Historice Bohemica (4 parts, 1864-'7), and Geschichte des Dreissig-jahrigen Kriegs (1869).