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Born August 27, 1776 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died January 31, 1831 (aged 54) • Bonn • Germany
Subjects Of Study Roman Empire • historiography

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Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
French historian
Velleius Paterculus
Roman historian
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Ludwig Heinrich Friedländer
German historian
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
J.B. Bury
British scholar
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian
Ammianus Marcellinus
Roman historian
Dio Cassius
Roman historian
Appian of Alexandria
Greek historian
Ferdinand Lot
French historian
Publius Herennius Dexippus
Roman historian
Leopold Ranke
Leopold von Ranke
German historian
Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
German jurist and historian
Meinecke, 1942
Friedrich Meinecke
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Wilhelm Adolf Becker
German archaeologist
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Constantine I
Constantine I
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Tiberius
Tiberius
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