Author: Francis LieberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Reminiscences of an intercourse with George Berthold Niebuhr
Author: Francis LieberReminiscences of an intercourse with George Berthold Niebuhr
Author: Francis LieberThe Quarterly Review
Author: The London Quarterly Review
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Author: A Sea of Love
Author: Claudia SchnurmannPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900434425X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
A Sea of Love presents 95 letters exchanged between Hamburg and Antebellum USA by the famous Berlin born scholar, encyclopedist, and knowledge broker Francis Lieber (1798-1872) and his wife, Hamburg born Mathilde in 1839-1845. Their letters offer rare insights in the privacy of marriage and family life, self perceptions, notions of surroundings, as well as mental settings of the spouses. Beyond genuine individual phenomena of their Atlantic emotions their epistles show ways and methods of international communication and networking. Their writings reflect general notions and ideas shared by well-educated citizens of an Atlantic Republic of Letters connected by culture, interests, and emotions.
Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer
Author: Cary Michael BarberPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004530010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Politics in the Roman Republic rewrites the field’s modern historiographical narrative through critical re-examinations of four foundational historians: Barthold Niebuhr, Theodor Mommsen, Friedrich Münzer, and Matthias Gelzer. Each chapter traces these scholars’ impact and offers novel (re)interpretations of their enduring frameworks, conceptual and methodological alike.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Free Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
'Behind Inverted Commas'
Author: Susanne StarkPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853593758
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This text examines the activities of a network of 19th century intellectuals in Britain who were engaged in the rendering of German texts into English. It establishes a series of cultural implications of the process of translation in an inter-and intra-lingual context and explores cross-currents between translation and gender studies, art history, philology, historiography and travel writing.
Reminiscences of an Intercourse with George Berthold Niebuhr; the Historian of Rome
Author: Francis LieberPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230456645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...that the benevolent Pius said these kindly words by way of quotation, since it is related that they were first used by a Pope who saw an Englishman exposed to the fury of the populace, as he would not kneel down when the pontiff passed. " Kneel Citron sent by the Pope. Look here, my young friend, Mr. Niebuhr said one day, the Pope has sent me a basket full of citrons produced in his garden. I shall have them boiled in sugar and send them to my Catholic friends in Berlin. How they will enjoy it! what a feast it will be for the little ones of! down, my son," were the words with which the Pope is said to have addressed the Englishman, " an old man's blessing won't harm thee anyhow." The same anecdote is reported of Sir Horace Walpole and Pope Benedict XVI. (Larabertini). The former paid his visit to the head of the Catholic church when his father was premier of England: he hesitated to kneel down, as it might have given rise to rumours not agreeable to his father, the great Whig minister; and the Pope, observing his hesitation, is said to have found this admirable way of avoiding the difficulty, by offering the blessing as an old man only, and not in his ecclesiastic capacity. The custom may have been different from what it is now: at present, no Protestant is expected to kneel before the Pope. Mr. Niebuhr, the minister of a Protestant monarch, bent his knee but slightly when he paid his respects to the Pope in official audiences--a way of approaching monarchs which was formerly common, and is still in use in several countries. At pre-Mr. Niebuhr's Father.--Franklin. I had read Mr. Niebuhr's Life of his Father, and said: " Your father seems to me somewhat like Franklin;" alluding merely to their simplicity and inexhaustible activity and...