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9 unusual facts about Theodor Mommsen


Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge

It can be said that Abel Greenidge was fully qualified to carry on where the great German scholar Mommsen had left off.

Delator

44; W Rein, Criminalrecht der Römer (1842); T Mommsen, Romisches Strafrecht (1899); Kleinfeller in Pauly-Wissowa?

Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins

Oliveira Martins was greatly influenced by authors like the German historian Theodor Mommsen, namely the importance given to the hero as the man who better incarnates the nation’s soul, the collective psychology of the nation in a given historical moment, corresponding to its demands and ambitions.

Lucius Appuleius Saturninus

49, De haruspicum responsis, 19, Pro Sestio, Pro Rabirio, passim; Mommsen, Hist. of Rome (Eng. trans.), bk.

Romans in Persia

Finally, one characteristic of the Roman presence in Persia is that Roman emperors dreamed of conquering all Persia from Trajan to Galerius, while Parthian/Sassanian kings never tried to conquer Rome, Italy or southeastern Europe according to historian Theodor Mommsen.

Theodor Mommsen

Fellow Nobel Laureate (1925) Bernard Shaw cited Mommsen's interpretation of the last First Consul of the Republic, Julius Caesar, as one of the inspirations for his 1898 (1905 on Broadway) play, Caesar and Cleopatra.

Lionel Gossman, Orpheus Philologus: Bachofen versus Mommsen on the Study of Antiquity. American Philosophical Society, 1983.

There is a Gymnasium (academic high school) named for Mommsen in his hometown of Bad Oldesloe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

His birthplace Garding in the west of Schleswig styles itself "Mommsen-Stadt Garding"


Associations in Ancient Rome

In addition to the works cited below, see Mommsen, De Collegiis et Sodaliciis (1843), which laid the foundation for all subsequent study of the subject; Marquardt, Staatsverwaltung, iii.

Battle of the Trebia

This article adopts Mommsen's classic view that the Romans camped on the right bank and crossed to the left.

Dero A. Saunders

With John H. Collins he compiled a noted translation of Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome He is also known for his abridged version of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Johann Caspar von Orelli

After his death, the revised edition of the text was completed by JG Baiter and K Halm, and contained numerous emendations by Theodor Mommsen and JN Madvig.

Marius Aventicensis

It has been frequently published — first by Chifflet in André Duchesne's Historiæ Francorum Scriptores, I (1636), 210-214; again by Migne in Patrologia Latina, LXXII, 793-802, by Theodor Mommsen in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores antiqui, XI (1893), 232-9, and by Justin Favrod with a French translation: La chronique de Marius d'Avenches (455–581) (Lausanne 1991).

Valtazar Bogišić

He was reading in Vienna, Berlin, Munich and Paris with many notable professors like Franz Bopp, the founder of comparative linguistics, Prussian historian Johann Gustav Droysen, Franc Miklošič, one of the most famous Slavic philologists, the founder of sociology Lorenz von Stein and many famous lawyers such as Theodor Mommsen, Rudolf von Jhering and few notable members of German Historical School of Law.

William Milligan Sloane

He studied history under Mommsen and Droysen, and much of the time he worked as private secretary to George Bancroft, United States Minister at Berlin.


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