Barthold Georg Niebuhr
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"Centrally, Marius dedicates much time, and Walter Pater much space, to examining the Meditations and character of Marcus Aurelius, who was warmly admired in the 19th century by the likes of Niebuhr, Matthew Arnold, Renan and George Long."--Sholem Stein |
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Barthold Georg Niebuhr (27 August 1776 – 2 January 1831) was a Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. Classical Rome (rather than Greece) caught the admiration of German thinkers. By 1810 Niebuhr was inspiring German patriotism in students at the University of Berlin by his analysis of Roman economy and government. Niebuhr was a leader of the Romantic era and symbol of German national spirit that emerged after the defeat at Jena. But he was also deeply rooted in the classical spirit of the Age of Enlightenment in his intellectual presuppositions, his use of philologic analysis, and his emphasis on both general and particular phenomena in history.
