Barthold Niebuhr

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Title: Barthold Niebuhr
Date: 1854 or later
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: mid.00013
Source: Middlebury College Library, Special Collections. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: Grier estimates that this was written in the late 1850s (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1838). "German Literature" refers to Joseph Gostwick's German Literature, which Lippincott published in 1854.
Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Matt Cohen Nicole Gray Ashlyn Stewart
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Barthold Niebuhr." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 October 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
Source File: mid.00013.xml (TEI)

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1776–1831—55 years Born at Copenhagen—during youth visited London and Edinburgh—Was an occupant of political offices for the younger‑manhood years of his life—but in 1823,—(aged 47) retired to Bonn, and became the great Reformer of Roman History, (and ancient History generally,)— Was much excited by the French Revolution of July, 1830—said to have hastened his death Jan 1831. —see page 249–50–51 "German Literature")