In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter IX. Ernst Curtius

CHAPTER IX ERNST CURTIUS ON a Saturday afternoon in the month of March, 1895, I was passing through the New Museum when I heard the voice of a lecturer. I was attracted by the quality of his voice. Accordingly, I drew near, and found a little circle of twelve, of whom three or four were American students. The lecturer was of medium stature and had a face that was remarkable for its strength. You saw at once that this was no ordinary man. He looked like a New England Con- gregational deacon, but with wonderfully soft, bright eyes and great intellectuality. He was describing some Greek archzological remains, and so I paused to listen. The broken sculpture would seem at the first glance to be fit only for being cast out; but as he lectured, the parts that were wanting seemed to be restored before your eyes, and by and by it seemed as if they began to live and move and have their being under what seemed to be the creating influence of this German professor. I was not at all surprised to learn that this was Ernst Curtius, the famous Greek historian and archeologist, and one of the teachers of the late Emperor Frederick. I became so wrapt up in enthusiastic interest as Curtius became eloquent that I drew nearer to him than I was aware, and the next thing I knew, in one of his [17

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