Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Born: August 27, 1776
Died: January 2, 1831 (aged 54)
Bio: Barthold Georg Niebuhr was a Danish-German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. Classical Rome caught the admiration of German thinkers.
Known for:
- Niebuhr's History of Rome
- The Roman History Volume 1