biography
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Niebuhr, Barthold Georg
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pronunciation:
[neeboor]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1776–1831)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied at Kiel, London, and Edinburgh, in 1816 became Prussian ambassador at the Vatican, and on his return in 1823 lectured at Bonn. His main work, the Römische Geschichte (1811–32, History of Rome), based on the constructive analysis of historical source material, marked him out as a founder of the 19th-c school of German historical scholarship. |
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