Barthold Georg Niebuhr
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Historians
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: An extraordinarily able historian, Niebuhr, through meticulously researched as well as voluminous books and published lectures, founded the modern German school of critical historical scholarship, one objective of which was regeneration of the Prussian state.
Early Life
Son of the noted German philologist and Arabian traveler Karsten Niebuhr, Barthold Georg Niebuhr was born on August 27, 1776, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Despite the appearance of being Danish, the Niebuhrs regarded themselves as German by virtue of having lived in...
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