Before revision: Kant who was one of the earliest thinkers to use the term Universal History '' described its meaning in "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose": In the 20th century Austrian academic Ernst Gombrich wrote Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser ("A short history of the world for young readers")(1935, pub.1936) in German shortly before fleeing Vienna and settling in Britain.
After revision: Kant who was one of the earliest thinkers to use the term Universal History described its meaning in "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose": In the 20th century Austrian academic Ernst Gombrich wrote Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser ("A short history of the world for young readers")(1935, pub.1936) in German shortly before fleeing Vienna and settling in Britain.