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GREGOROVIUS, FERDINAND (1821-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 562 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREGOROVIUS, See also:FERDINAND (1821-1891) , See also:German historian, was See also:born at Neidenburg on the 19th of See also:January 1821, and studied at the university of See also:Konigsberg. After spending some years in teaching he took up his See also:residence in See also:Italy in 1852, remaining in that See also:country for over twenty years. He was made a See also:citizen of See also:Rome, and he died at See also:Munich on the 1st of May 1891. Gregorovius's See also:interest in and acquaintance with Italy and See also:Italian See also:history is mainly responsible for his See also:great See also:book, Geschichte der Stadt Rom See also:im Mittelalter (See also:Stuttgart, 1859–1872, and other See also:editions), a See also:work of much erudition and interest, which has been translated into See also:English by A. See also:Hamilton (13 vols., 1894-1900), and also into Italian at the expense of the See also:Romans (See also:Venice, 1874–1876). It deals with the history of Rome from about A.D. 400 to the See also:death of See also:Pope See also:Clement VII. in 1534, and in the words of its author it describes " how, from the See also:time of See also:Charles the Great to that of Charles V., the historic See also:system of the papacy remained inseparable from that of the See also:Empire." The other See also:works of Gregorovius include: Geschichte See also:des Kaisers See also:Hadrian and seiner Zeit (Konigsberg, 1851), English See also:translation by M. E. See also:Robinson (1898); See also:Corsica (Stuttgart, 1854), English translation by R. See also:Martineau (1855); Lucrezia See also:Borgia (Stuttgart, 1874), English translation by J. L. Garner (1904) ; See also:Die Grabdenkmdler der Papste (See also:Leipzig, 1881), English translation by R.

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Seton-See also:Watson (1903); Wanderjahre in Italien (5 vols., Leipzig, 1888–1892); Geschichte der Stadt Athen im Mittelalter (1889); Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte der Kultur (Leipzig, 1887–1892); and See also:Urban VIII. im Widerspruch zu Spanien and dem Kaiser (Stuttgart, 1879). This last work was translated into Italian by the author himself (Rome, 1879). Gregorovius was also something of a poet; he wrote a See also:drama, Der See also:Tod des Tiberius (1851), and some Gedichte (Leipzig, 1891). His Romische Tagebiicher were edited by F. Althaus (Stuttgart, 1892), and were translated into English as the See also:Roman See also:Journals of F. Gregorovius, by A. Hamilton (1907).

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According to stories passed down in my family, Ferdinand was a friend of "Mad King" Ludwig who supported him during his 20 years researching in Rome. I will have to go back to my genealogy program to see exactly what his relationship was to me, but the Gregorovius were my ancestors.
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