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Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature for his historical writings, including The History of Rome, after having been nominated by 18 members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He was a…
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culture · German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903) · historian of classical antiquity · numismatist · jurist · journalist · legal historian · writer · university teacher · politician · epigrapher · classical archaeologist · also Theodor Mommsen, Christian Mommsen, T. Mommsen, Theodore Mommsen, Mommsen
Born 30 November 1817 · Died 1 November 1903 · Q25351
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The Atlantic: Theodor Mommsen
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1903· 1 entry
Died 1903-11-01.
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1902· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, <I>A history of Rome</I>.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for The History of Rome (1902).
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1890· 1 entry
Mommsen became one of the co-founders of the Association for Combating Antisemitism (Abwehrverein), a humanist association created to publicly counter the growing antisemitism in Germany
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1881· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Reichstag of the German Empire (1881–1884).
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Advising collaboration between Liberals and Social Democrats and using such strong language that he narrowly avoided prosecution
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1879· 1 entry
His colleague Heinrich von Treitschke began a political campaign against Jews (the so-called Berliner Antisemitismusstreit)
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1873· 1 entry
Was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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1871· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1871).
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1868· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1868).
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1863· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Prussian House of Representatives (1863–1879).
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1859· 1 entry
The Prussian medal Pour le Mérite in 1868, honorary citizenship of Rome, elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1870, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for his main work Römische Geschichte (Roma
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1858· 1 entry
Mommsen was appointed a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and he also became professor of Roman History at the University of Berlin in 1861, where he held lectures up to 1887
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1854· 2 entries
Became a professor of law at the University of Breslau where he met Jakob Bernays
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Mommsen married Marie Auguste Reimer (1832-1907), with whom he had 16 children
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1847· 1 entry
Career landmark: professor (1847–1885).
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1843· 1 entry
Studied at Kiel University (1838–1843).
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1835· 1 entry
Studied at Christianeum (1835).
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1817· 2 entries
Born 1817-11-30.
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Then ruled by the king of Denmark, and grew up in Bad Oldesloe in Holstein, where his father was a Lutheran minister
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