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Show f- : Professor Mommsen Dead. Professor Theodor Mommsen, the great his-I his-I torian, is dead. Professor Mommsen was born at Garding, Schleswig-ITolstein, Xov. oO, 1817. The nestor of jurists and historians in Germany, he had long been a power at the University of Berlin, Ber-lin, where his snow-while hair and bent figure Were actual landmarks of the old institution. The publication of Mommsen's greatest work, his "Roman History," was begun in 1354. and was not finished for thirty years. His treatment of the political and social conditions of Rome disclosed minute knowledge of all the literary and monumental monu-mental remains bearing on the time, and the keenest keen-est critical estimates. It was written in an animated ani-mated style that did not. fear modern allusions and comparisons, and quickly became a part of German Ger-man national literature. But if Mommsen's "Roman History" was his most popular work, his most erudite was his "Roman "Ro-man jurisprudence." His lesser essays and studies stud-ies on subjects connected with Roman history, chronology and topography were innumerable. lie was an especially distinguished authority on the-inscriptions the-inscriptions that have survived from ancient days, and was the editor of the great "Corpus Inscrip- ( tionum Latinarum." containing all . the Latin inscriptions in-scriptions published by 'the Prussian Academy of Sciences from 1SG3 to lSDu. |