“ GEFFCKEN, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH (1830–1896) , German diplomatist and jurist, was born on the 9th of December 1830 at Hamburg, of which city his father was senator. After studying law at Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin, he was attached in 1854 to the Prussian legation at Paris. For ten years (1856–1866) he was the diplomatic representative of Hamburg in Berlin, first as chargé d’affaires, and afterwards as minister-resident, being afterwards transferred in a like capacity to London. ”

“ Frankreich, Russland und der Dreibund (Berlin, 1894) ; and Staat und Kirche (1875) , English translation by E. F. Fairfax (1877) . His writings on English history have been translated by S. J. Macmullan and published as The British Empire, with essays on Prince Albert, Palmerston, Beaconsfield, Gladstone, and reform of the House of Lords (1889) . ”