Name: Theodor Mommsen.
Real Name: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen.
Country: Germany.
Nationality: German.
Date of Birth: November 30 , 1817.
Died: November 1, 1903.
Education: Gymnasium Christianeum University of Kiel.
Subjects Of Study: Roman Empire, ancient Rome, Roman law, constitutional law, epigraphy.
Popularly Known: The greatest classical historian of the nineteenth century.
Profession: Classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist.
Noble Prize Year: Nobel Prize for Peace in 1902, for the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome.
Fields: Classical scholar, jurist, ancient historian.
The combination of Theodor Mommsen’s legal and historical training was crucial to his career in research. The three-volume, ground-breaking work Römische Geschichte, which he wrote about Roman history, served as the main impetus for his Nobel Prize. It illustrated various facets of Roman Republic history, including political, judicial, economic, cultural, geographical, and meteorological. He won the Nobel Prize for literature because of the vivid and sympathetic nature of his writing.
