Theodor Mommsen - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1902
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Theodor Mommsen

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1902
the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome
Citizenship
German Empire German Empire Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia German Reich German Reich Duchy of Schleswig Duchy of Schleswig
Languages
Latin, Ancient Greek, German
date of birth
11/30/1817
place of birth
Garding
date of death
11/1/1903
place of death
Charlottenburg
Lived
85 years

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educated at
  • Kiel University
    • academic major: jurisprudence
    • end time: 1843
    • start time: May 1838
  • Christianeum
    • start time: October 1835
member of
  • Society for Defense against Anti-Semitism
    • start time: 1890
  • Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
    • start time: 1895
    • end time: 1903
  • Austrian Archaeological Institute
    • start time: 1898
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 2/24/1849
  • Burschenschaft Teutonia zu Kiel
    • start time: May 1838
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1873
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 3/19/1876
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 1/3/1861
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1858
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • American Antiquarian Society
  • German Archaeological Institute
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Freie Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Serbian Learned Society
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Romanian Academy
position held
  • professor
    • end time: 1885
    • start time: 1847
  • member of the Reichstag of the German Empire
    • end time: 1884
    • start time: 1881
  • Member of the Prussian House of Representatives
    • start time: 1863
    • end time: 1879
employer
  • Frederick William University Berlin
    • end time: 1885
    • start time: 1861
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1858
  • University of Zurich
    • start time: 4/29/1852
    • end time: 8/27/1854
  • University of Wrocław
    • start time: 1854
    • end time: 1858
  • Leipzig University
    • start time: 1847
    • end time: 1851
work location
  • Leipzig
    • start time: 1847
    • end time: 1851
  • France
    • start time: 1844
  • Berlin
    • start time: 1858
  • Geographical region of Italy
    • end time: 1847
notable work
  • The History of Rome
    • start time: 1854
  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
    • start time: 1853
occupation
  • Germanist
  • historian of classical antiquity
  • historian
  • journalist
  • university teacher
  • numismatist
  • legal historian
  • classical archaeologist
  • epigrapher
  • writer
  • politician
  • jurist
  • member of parliament
field of work
  • study of history
  • jurisprudence
  • classical philology
  • classical antiquity
  • history
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