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An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings ...

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Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Ital...

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Born: 1817-11-30

Died: 1903-11-01

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, jurist and historian, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, and was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments.More

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