Show t PROF FOREMOST GERMAN JURIST AND HISTORIAN DEAD AD t ail 4 N an N prof prat theodor who died at berlin nov I 1 was the foremost jurist and historian ot of germany german y prof was nearly 86 years old ho ile was born at garding formerly dan ish schleswig Sch leswig nov 30 1817 and was professor of law at the age of 30 in the university sity of leipzig in 1852 he occupied the same position at zurich going thence successively to breslau ONE OF GERMANYS GREATEST prof s death breaks link in history with the passing of prof theodor germany has lost the last link beav bertoen oen the present generation of thinkers ind nd scholars and those who like Helm baltz and virchow lent the luster of their erks to the past four decades of germau germa hi tory the old historian frequently receive 11 1 cor respondents in his home in chariots denburg one of berlins suburbs suburb and made each interview the occasion of affairs of which he was a keen stu an animated discussion of american dent was fond of dwelling on two ideas any report of which he re sa ud no bo un after his death when asked once what was the motive underlying the kaiser s anxiety to possess a EL powerful navy he replied because he dreams of a german trafalgar at the ex pense of either great britain or the united states he ile would prefer the united states because he has no grandmother buried there another favorite idea the old his torian had was the peaceful creation of a german state within the united states where germans might reside under some form of german self gov and live out their german ideals untrammeled by the modern political tendencies of the fatherland he insisted were reactionary surrounded by his large farbry spent his declining beals arranging his valuable collection of manuscripts occasionally he would issue a manifesto on some burning public topic his most recent utter ances consisted of appeals for ger man university freedom for an al hance of the liberal and socialist parties and for a better anglo An gloGer ger man understanding many of abens gen s countrymen refused to take him seriously declaring that he had tailed failed to keep step with the march of mod ern events but still thought in the spirit of forty years ago germany however mourns in him the loss of one of her greatest sons berlin and again to berlin where he was tried in 1882 on oil P a charge of having slandered bismarck but he was acquitted I his works cop coil chiefly of historical studies ot of 1 italy and bis his history of rome is a masterpiece prof favored the boers during the south african war and at the time uttered severe strictures on Brit britain ains s policy |