Karsten Niebuhr - Karsten Niebuhr Karsten Niebuhr (more commonly known as Carsten Niebuhr) (March 17, 1733 - April 26, 1815) was a German traveller. He was born at Ludingwortb, Lauenburg, on the southern border of Holstein, the son of a small farmer. He had little education, and for several years of his youth had to do the work of a peasant. His bent was towards mathematics, and he managed to obtain some lessons in surveying. It was while he was working at this subject that one of his teachers, in 1760, proposed to him to join the expedition which was being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Arabia and Syria. To qualify himself for the work of surveyor and geographer, he studied.
Barthold Georg Niebuhr - Barthold Georg Niebuhr Barthold Georg Niebuhr (August 27, 1776 - January 2, 1831) was a German statesman and historian. Son of Karsten Niebuhr, he was born at Copenhagen. From the earliest age young Niebuhr manifested extraordinary precocity, and from 1794 to 1796, being already a finished classical scholar and acquainted with several modern languages, he studied at the University of Kiel. After quitting the university he became private secretary to Count Schimmelmann, Danish minister of finance. But in 1798 he gave up this appointment and travelled in Great Britain, spending a year at Edinburgh studying agriculture and physical science. In 1799 he returned to Denmark, where he entered the state service; in 1800 he married and settled at Copenhagen. In 1804 he became chief director of the National.
Johann David Michaelis - Biblical and Oriental learning could be established. His linguistic work indeed was always hampered by the lack of manuscript material, which is felt in his philological writings, e.g. in his valuable Supplementa to the Hebrew lexicons (1784-1792). He could not become such an Arabist as J.J. Reiske; and, though for many years the most famous teacher of Semitic languages in Europe, he had little of the higher philological faculty, and neither his grammatical nor his critical work has left a permanent mark, with the exception perhaps of his text-critical studies on the Peshitta. His tastes were all for such studies as history, antiquities, and especially geography and natural science. He had in fact started his university course as a medicinae cultor, and in his autobiography he half regrets that he did.
Johann Jakob Reiske - where he hoped to get medical practice. But his shy, proud nature was not fitted to gain patients, and the Leipzig doctors would not recommend one who was not a Leipzig graduate. In 1747 an Arabic dedication to the electoral prince of Saxony got him the title of professor, but neither the faculty of arts nor that of medicine was willing to admit him among them, and he never delivered a course of lectures. He had still to go on doing literary task-work, but his labour was much worse paid in Leipzig than in Leiden. Still he could have lived and sent his old mother, as his custom was, a yearly present of a piece of leather to be sold in retail if he had been a better manager. But, careless.
Friedrich Sylburg - post at Lich and moved to Frankfurt to act as corrector and editor of Greek texts for the enterprising publisher Johann Wechel. To his Frankfurt period belong the editions of Pausanias, Herodotus, Dionysius Halicarnassensis (one of his best pieces of work, highly praised by Karsten Niebuhr), Aristotle, the Greek and Latin sources for the history of the Roman emperors and the IlepJ owras of Apollonius Dyscolus. In 1591 he moved to Heidelberg, where he became librarian to the elector palatine. The Wechel series was continued by Hieronymus Commelinus of Heidelberg, for whom Sylburg edited Clement of Alexander, Justin Martyr, the Etymologicum magnum, the Scriptores de re rustica, the Greek gnomic poets, Xenophon, Nonnus and other works. All Sylburg's editions show great critical power and indefatigable industry; the latter may well have.
Connop Thirlwall - though he did not lose interest in other subjects. In the meantime, he took on the task of translating and prefacing Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher's essay on the Gospel of St Luke. He further rendered two of Johann Ludwig Tieck's most recent Novellen into English. In 1827 he made up his mind to finish with law, and was ordained deacon the same year. Thirlwall now joined Hare in translating Karsten Niebuhr's History of Rome; the first volume appeared in 1828. The translation was attacked in the Quarterly as favourable to scepticism, and the translators jointly replied. In 1831 they established the Philological Museum, which lasted only six numbers. Among Thirlwall's contributions was his masterly paper on the irony of Sophocles. On Hare's departure from Cambridge in 1832, Thirlwall became assistant college.
Ekaterina Karsten - Ekaterina Karsten Ekaterina Karsten (born 1972) is an athelete from Belarus and a member of the Federation_Internationale_des_Societes_d'Aviron..
Reinhold Niebuhr - Reinhold Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant theologian best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the reality of modern politics and diplomacy. Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, USA, and was the brother of Helmut Richard Niebuhr. He was educated at Yale University's school of divinity, and went to do evangelical work in Detroit. Works Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932) The Nature and Destiny of Man (1941) Faith and History (1949) The Irony of American History (1952).
Karl Wilhelm Dindorf - Athenaeus, whom he edited in 1827, and to the Greek dramatists, all of whom he edited separately and combined in his Poetae scenici Graeci (1830 and later editions). He also wrote a work on the metres of the Greek dramatic poets, and compiled special lexicons to Aeschylus and Sophocles. He edited Procopius for Niebuhr's Corpus of the Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 brought out at Oxford an important edition of Demosthenes; he also edited Lucian and Josephus for the Didot classics. His last important editorial labour was his Eusebius of Caesarea (1867-1871). Much of his attention was occupied by the re-publication of Stephanus's Thesaurus (Paris, 1831-1865), chiefly executed by him and his brother Ludwig, a work of prodigious labour and utility. His reputation suffered somewhat through the imposture practised.
Justinian I - The eunuch general Narses took over Belisarius' command, and the historian Procopius, a former officer in Belisarius' army, accused the general of treason. Belisarius briefly sufferred imprisonment, but Justinian later pardoned him and he defeated the Bulgars when they appeared on the Danube for the first time in 559. In 551, Byzantine forces conquered part of southern Spain from the Visigoths. Narses failed to defend Italy against either the Ostrogoths or the Lombards. Nevertheless, under Justinian, the empire's territory expanded greatly, if only for a short time. Religious policy Justinian's religious policy reflected the imperial conviction that the unity of the empire unconditionally presupposed unity of faith; and with him it seemed a matter of course that this faith could be only the orthodox. Those of a different belief had to.
Julius Charles Hare - in 1853 he became one of Queen Victoria's chaplains. Julius Hare belonged to what has been called the "Broad Church party," though some of his opinions approach those of the Evangelical Arminian school, while others seem vague and undecided. He was one of the first Britons to recognize and be influenced by German thought and speculation, and, amidst an exaggerated alarm of German heresy, helped vindicate the authority of the sounder German critics. His writings, which are chiefly theological and controversial, consist mainly of sermons on different topics; though valuable and full of thought, they lose some of their force by the cumbersome German structure of the sentences. In 1827 Guesses at Truth by Two Brothars, appeared. Hare assisted Connop Thirlwall, afterwards Bishop of St David's, in translating the first and.
Gaius - himself to that of the Sabinians, who were said to be followers of Ateius Capito, of whose life we have some account in the Annals of Tacitus, and to advocate a strict adherence as far as possible to ancient rules, and to resist innovation. Many quotations from the works of Gaius occur in the Digest of Justinian, and so acquired a permanent place in the system of Roman law; while a comparison of the Institutes of Justinian with those of Gaius shows that the whole method and arrangement of the later work were copied from that of the earlier, and very numerous passages are word for word the same. Probably, for the greater part of the period of three centuries which elapsed between Gaius and Justinian, the Institutes of the former.
Gerrha - (lust. Nat. vi. 32) says it was 5 miles in circumference with towers built of square blocks of salt. Various identifications of the site have been attempted, JPB D?Anville choosing El Katif, C Niebuhr preferring Kuwet and C Forster suggesting the ruins at the head of the bay behind the islands of Bahrein. This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
George Bancroft - father, Aaron Bancroft, was distinguished as a revolutionary soldier, clergyman and author. His son was educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, at Harvard University, at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied Plato with Heeren, New Testament Greek with Eichhorn and natural science with Blumenbach. He concluded his years of preparation by a European tour, in the course of which he received kind attention from almost every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art; among others, from Goethe, Humboldt, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Byron, Niebuhr, Bunsen, Savigny, Cousin, Constant and Manzoni. Bancroft’s father was a Unitarian, and he had devoted his son to the work of the ministry; but the young man's first experiments at preaching, shortly after his return from Europe in 1822, were unsatisfactory, the theological teaching of.
George Cornewall Lewis - systematic statement and discussion of the various relations in which colonies may stand towards the mother country. In 1844 Lewis married Lady Maria Theresa Lister, sister of Lord Clarendon, and a lady of literary tastes. Much of their married life was spent in Kent House, Knightsbridge. They had no children. In 1847 Lewis resigned his office. He was then returned for the county of Hereford, and Lord John Russell appointed him secretary to the Board of Control, but a few months afterwards he became under-secretary to the Home Office. In this capacity he introduced two important bills,one for the abolition of turnpike trusts and the management of highways by a mixed county board, the other for the purpose of defining and regulating the law of parochial assessment. In 1850 he succeeded.
Gifford Lectures - by William James, published as "The Variety of Religious Experience," and those by Albert Schweitzer, published as "The Search for the Historical Jesus." Other famous Gifford lecturers include Alfred North Whitehead, Reinhold Niebuhr, Niels Bohr, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Iris Murdoch..
University of Leiden - foundation of such scholars as Justus Lipsius, Joseph Scaliger, Franciscus Gomarus, Hugo Grotius, Jacobus Arminius, Daniel Heinsius and Guardas Johannes Vossius, at once raised Leiden university to the highest European fame, a position which the learning and reputation of Jacobus Gronovius, Herman Boerhaave, Tiberius Hemsterhuis and David Ruhnken, among others, enabled it to maintain down to the end of the 18th century. The portraits of many famous professors since the earliest days hang in the university aula, one of the most memorable places, as Niebuhr called it, in the history of science. The university library contains upwards of 190,000 volumes and 6000 manuscripts and pamphlet portfolios, and is very rich in Oriental and Greek manuscripts and old Dutch travels. Among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for.
Friedrich Karl von Savigny - of fresh sources of Roman law. In this quest, particularly in Paris, he was successful. In 1808 he was appointed by the Bavarian government ordinary professor of Roman law at Landshut, where he remained a year and a half. In 1810 he was called, chiefly at the instance of Wilhelm von Humboldt, to fill the chair of Roman law at the new university of Berlin. Here one of his services was to create, in connexion with the faculty of law, a "Spruch-Collegium," an extraordinary tribunal competent to deliver opinions on cases remitted to it by the ordinary courts; and he took an active part in its labours. This was the busiest time of his life. He was engaged in lecturing, in the government of the university (of which he was the.
Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - volume of his World History (Weltgeschichte in zusammenhängender Erzählung). This work, though never completed, was extended through many volumes, bespeaking an inexhaustible energy and a vast erudition. But it lacks both accuracy of fact and charm of style, and is to-day deservedly quite forgotten. On the other hand a translation of the pedagogical handbook of Vincent of Beauvais and the accompanying monograph are still of value. The next noteworthy work was a history of antiquity and its culture (Universalhistorische Übersicht der Geschichte der alten Welt und ihrer Kultur, 1st part, 1826; 2nd part, 1834), which, while revealing little knowledge of the new criticism of sources inaugurated by F.A. Wolf and B.G. Niebuhr, won its way by its unique handling of the subject and its grand style. In 1823 he published in.
Eighty-second United States Congress - Hamilton Chamberlain Jones (Representative), Democrat, NC Paul Caruthers Jones (Representative), Democrat, MO Robert Emmett Jones, Jr (Representative), Democrat, AL Woodrow Wilson Jones (Representative), Democrat, NC Walter Henry Judd (Representative), Republican, MN Frank Melvin Karsten (Representative), Democrat, MO Robert Winthrop Kean (Representative), Republican, NJ Bernard William Kearney (Representative), Republican, NY Carroll Dudley Kearns (Representative), Republican, PA Kenneth Barnard Keating (Representative), Republican, NY John Kee (Representative), Democrat, WV Maude Elizabeth Kee (Representative), Democrat, WV Carey Estes Kefauver (Senator), Democrat, TN Augustine Bernard Kelley (Representative), Democrat, PA Edna Flannery Kelly (Representative), Democrat, NY James Preston Kem (Senator), Republican, MO John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Representative), Democrat, MA Eugene James Keogh (Representative), Democrat, NY John Hosea Kerr (Representative), Democrat, NC Robert Samuel Kerr (Senator), Democrat, OK Charles Joseph Kersten (Representative), Republican, WI Clarence Evans Kilburn (Representative), Republican,.
