Gregorovius, Ferdinand (Neidenburg, East Prussia, 1821-91, Munich), studied history at Königsberg University and developed into an outstanding art historian. From 1852 to 1874 he lived in Rome, afterwards moving to Munich, where he was a friend of Graf A. F. von Schack. Gregorovius's principal works are Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter (8 vols., 1859-72), Lucrezia Borgia (2 vols., 1874), and Geschichte der Stadt Athen im Mittelalter (2 vols., 1889). In literature Gregorovius was no more than a dilettante. He wrote the tragedy Der Tod des Tiberius (1851) and a short epic, Pompeji Euphorion (1858), and translated the songs of Giovanni Meli (1856). A volume of poems was published after his death by Graf Schack (1891). Lucrezia Borgia was used by C. F. Meyer as the source for his Novelle Angela Borgia.
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Ferdinand Gregorovius (January 19, 1821 – May 1, 1891) was a German historian who specialized in the medieval history of Rome. He is best known for Wanderjahre in Italien, his account of the walks he took through Italy in the 1850s, and the monumental Die Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter (History of Rome in the Middle Ages), a classic for Medieval and early Renaissance history. He also wrote biographies of Pope Alexander VI and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as works on Byzantine history and medieval Athens, and translated Italian authors into German, among them Giovanni Melis. According to Jesuit Father John Hardon, S.J. Gregorovius was "a bitter enemy of the popes."[1]
Gregorovius was born at Neidenburg (Nidzica), East Prussia, and studied theology and philosophy at the University of Königsberg. After teaching for many years, Gregorovius took up residence in Italy in 1852, remaining in that country for over twenty years. In 1876 he was made honorary citizen of Rome, the first German to be awarded this honor. A street and a square is named after him. He eventually returned to Germany, where he died in Munich.
Notes and References
- ^ Hardon, John (1998). "IV. Recognizing the True Church". Christ to Catholicism. InterMirifica. http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Church_Dogma/Church_Dogma_026.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
""What human institution could have withstood the ordeal?" asks de Maistre. A bitter enemy of the popes, Gregorovius, declares that the Schism "raised the papacy from decadence to a new eminence, and showed the world once again how the mystical faith of the people endows the pontiffs with power that can rise to glory even when apparently dead." Fr. John Hardon S.J."
Works
- Der Tod des Tiberius ("Tiberius' Death", 1851)
- Geschichte des römischen Kaisers Hadrian und seiner Zeit ("History of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and His Times", 1851)
- Corsica (1854)
- Göthe’s Wilhelm Meister in seinen socialistischen Elementen entwickelt. Schwäbisch Hall: E. Fischhaber, 1855.
- Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter (1859–1872)
- Wanderjahre in Italien (1856–1877)
- Geschichte der Stadt Athen im Mittelalter. Von der Zeit Justinians bis zur türkischen Eroberung ("History of Athens in the Middle Ages. From Justinian to the Turkish Conquest", 1889)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1874)
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