Note 566 — BOOK XII[500]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1774-1831), a celebrated German historian, philologist and critic, was born at Copenhagen and was in the Danish Civil Service until 1806, when he entered that of Prussia. He was Prussian Minister to Rome from 1816 to 1823, with Bunsen as his secretary of Legation. Niebuhr's Römische Geschichte (1811-1832) revolutionized the study of Roman history.—T.