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 XVI. Theodore Mommsen

CHAPTER XVI THEODORE MOMMSEN IN the month of January, 1895, I saw some one with long, gray hair carefully crossing the street from the Opera House to the University. As he was in the middle of the street he saw a Court carriage approaching. He stood in his place, and took off his hat and bowed with deep obeisance. At the carriage window we saw the sweet young face of a child. It was the little Princess Victoria, the only daughter of the Emperor and Empress. - She smiled, and with pretty childish grace returned the greeting. I often wonder if she remembers the courtly homage that was paid her by that venerable and learned scholar, Theodore Mommsen, the historian of Rome. His wonderful face and features as depicted by Ludwig Knaus had made him unmistakable, and I had after- ward frequent opportunities of seeing him going in and out of the royal library. He was an old man, but his name still figured in the catalogue of the University as a professor, and once a year he gave a single lecture to keep his name on the active list. When we met Mommsen it seemed to all of us who came across the sea as if we saw a being from a former age or from another world. When we were schoolboys forty years ago we had been nurtured on Mommsen's ‘ History of Rome,’ hence we imagined 76

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