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About Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Barthold Georg Niebuhr 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. 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 philological analysis, and his emphasis on both general and particular phenomena in history.
Everything about Barthold Georg Niebuhr →- Occupation
- historian, politician, diplomat, university teacher
- Position held
- Historiographer of the Prussian state
- Citizenship
- Denmark–Norway, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom of Denmark
- Born
- August 27, 1776
- Died
- January 2, 1831