Carl von Rotteck (undated) Portrait of Carl von Rotteck (1775-1840), historian, politician, and leading representative of political liberalism in Baden. Together with Carl Welcker, he edited the Staats-Lexikon, a detailed compendium of social and political terminology that exerted great influence on the political climate in Germany before the revolution of 1848/49. Engraving by Carl Ludwig Frommel, undated.