Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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