Theodor Mommsen was born on 30 November 1817 in Garding. A German historian and classical scholar, Mommsen is best known for his multivolume History of Rome, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902. He also helped create the monumental Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a collection of Latin inscriptions, and wrote major works on Roman law and constitutional history, which shaped the field for generations. A liberal politician, he sat in the Prussian and German parliaments and opposed Bismarck and antisemitism. His wide-ranging research, based on inscriptions, coins and legal texts as well as literary sources, gave Roman studies a firm documentary basis.
Before and after
- 12 July 1817Birth of Henry David Thoreau
- 18 July 1817Death of Jane Austen
- 26 August 1817Founding of University of Michigan
- from November 1817 to February 1818Third Anglo-Maratha War
- 30 November 1817Birth of Theodor Mommsen
- 1 January 1818Publication of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
- 1818Rise of House of Bernadotte
- 1 January 1818Battle of Koregaon
- 23 February 1818Discovery of 27P/Crommelin
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