In conclusion, Heinrich Schaefer’s Geschichte von Portugal seems to constitute the most complete and perfect example, in the first half of the 19th century, of a scientific historiography dedicated to the Portuguese past throughout the entire span of its multi- dynastic monarchy. This is due to its size; its methodology and erudition; the fact that it was completed (unlike Alexandre Herculano’s, for example) and that it is not limited to a single volume or a historical summary or popular version of historical facts, Schaefer’s work should be considered pioneering in a 19th-century Portugal in which many editorial and scientific projects were either forgotten or came to a premature end. Although never reproduced as a facsimile document, Schaefer’s Geschichte von Portugal stands out as the most solid project by a single non-Portuguese author in the entire 19th century, at least among works with the same characteristics of erudition for a literate and academic audience. In the words of Oliveira Marques, its “mere historical usefulness” should not obscure the “awareness that it was a milestone in historiography, both foreign and Portuguese, focused on Portugal’s past” (Op. cit., p. 70).

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