Editing Ferdinand Gregorovius

{{Short description|German historian (1821–1891)}}
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[[File:Ferdinand Gregorovius.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Gregorovius]]
[[Image:Gregorovius ferdinand.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Gregorovius]]
'''Ferdinand Gregorovius''' ({{IPA|de|ˈfɛʁdinant ɡʁeɡoˈʁoːvi̯ʊs|lang}}; 19 January 1821 – 1 May 1891) was a German [[historian]] who specialized in the [[medieval]] history of [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Münz, Sigmund|title=Ferdinand Gregorovius|journal=English Historical Review|year=1892|pages=697–704|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044021003413;view=1up;seq=705|doi=10.1093/ehr/VII.XXVIII.697}}</ref>

==Biography==
Gregorovius was the son of Neidenburg district justice council Ferdinand Timotheus Gregorovius and his wife Wilhelmine Charlotte Dorothea Kausch. An earlier ancestor named Grzegorzewski had come to Prussia from [[Poland]]. Members of the Gregorovius family lived in Prussia for over 300 years, and produced many jurists, preachers and artists. One famous ancestor of Ferdinand's was Johann Adam Gregorovius, born 1681 in Johannisburg, district of Gumbinnen.

Ferdinand Gregorovius was born at [[Nidzica|Neidenburg]], [[Province of East Prussia|East Prussia]] (now [[Nidzica]], [[Poland]]), and studied theology and philosophy at the [[University of Königsberg]]. In 1838, he joined the student association, the [[Corps Masovia Königsberg (Potsdam)|Corps Masovia]]. After teaching for many years, Gregorovius took up residence in [[Italy]] in 1852, where he remained for over twenty years. In 1876, he was made an honorary citizen of [[Rome]], the first German to be awarded this honor. A street and a square are named after him. He eventually returned to Germany, where he died in [[Munich]].

He is best known for ''Wanderjahre in Italien'', his account of the travels on foot that 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 Father [[John Hardon]] {{Post-nominals|list=[[Society of Jesus|SJ]]}}, Gregorovius was "a bitter enemy of the popes."<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Church_Dogma/Church_Dogma_026.htm
|title= IV. Recognizing the True Church
|access-date= 2 January 2008
|last= Hardon
|first= John
|author-link= John Hardon
|year= 1998
|work= Christ to Catholicism
|publisher= InterMirifica
}}</ref>

==Works==
* ''Der Ghetto und die Juden in Rom'', Mit Einem Geleitwort von Leo Baeck, Im Schocken Verlag/Berlin, 1935 (originally published, 1853)
* ''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)
** [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000349085 ''The Emperor Hadrian''] (1898 translation by Mary E. Robinson)
* ''Siciliana'' (1853)
* ''Corsica'' (1854);<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Corsica'' by Ferdinand Gregorovius|journal=The London Quarterly Review|date=January 1855|pages=134–143|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039439115;view=1up;seq=146}}</ref> [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009796652 ''Corsica''] (1855 trans. by [[Edward Joy Morris]])
* ''Göthe’s Wilhelm Meister in seinen socialistischen Elementen entwickelt''. Schwäbisch Hall: E. Fischhaber, 1855.
* ''Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter'' (1859–1872) Translated into English 'The History of Rome in the Middle Ages' (1894–1902). (reissued by [http://www.italicapress.com/index165.html Italica Press], 2000–2004.); (reissued by [[Cambridge University Press]], 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-108-01513-4}})
** [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012240802 Anne Hamilton's trans. of the 4th German edition]
* [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/gregorov/wanderit/wanderit.htm ''Wanderjahre in Italien''] (1856–1877)
* ''Die Insel Capri'' (1868); [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100728220 ''The island of Capri''] (1879 trans. by Lilian Clarke)
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000650853 ''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)
* ''Lucretia Borgia und ihre Zeit'' (''Lucrezia Borgia: a chapter from the morals of the Italian Renaissance'', 1874)
** [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100544649 John Leslie Garner's trans. of the 3rd German edition]
* ''Die Grabmäler der Römischen Päpste'' (''The Tombs of The Roman Popes''), first edition 1857 in German ([https://books.google.com/books?id=oa4AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA209 Google books link]), later in 1881 as ''Die Grabdenkmäler der Päpste'' (''The Tombs of The Popes'') ([https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23294920M/Grabdenkm%C3%A4ler_der_P%C3%A4pste Open Library link])  and in English as ''The Tombs of the Popes'' (tr: Louisa W. Terry) Victoria Press, Rome 1904 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=NZVDAAAAYAAJ&dq=The%20Tombs%20of%20The%20Popes&pg=PP1 Google books link])
* ''Die Insel Capri. Idylle vom Mittelmeer'' (1897)
** [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100894637 M. Douglass Fairbairn's trans.]

==Notes==
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==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=9530| name=Ferdinand Gregorovius}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ferdinand Gregorovius}}
* {{Librivox author |id=306}}
* {{OL author|153906A}}
* [http://www.romeartlover.it/Gregorovius.html Ferdinand Gregorovius]
* [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/_Texts/ROBLAT/home.html ''Latian Summers''] (1903 English translation of part of ''Wanderjahre in Italien'')

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