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Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen war ein deutscher Historiker und gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Altertumswissenschaftler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Seine Werke und Editionen zur römischen Geschichte sind für die heutige Forschung noch immer von grundlegender Bedeutung. Für seine Römische Geschichte wurde er 1902 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur geehrt. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. November 1817 – 1. November 1903   •   Andere Namen Thieodor Mommsen
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„Ohne Leidenschaft gibt es keine Genialität.“

Theodor Mommsen buch Römische Geschichte

Römische Geschichte

„In dem Glauben an das Ideale ist alle Macht, wie alle Ohnmacht der Demokratie begründet.“

Theodor Mommsen

Ideale in der Politik. In: Morgen-Post, 23. Jahrgang, Nr. 289, Wien, 20. Oktober 1873,
Originalfassung: "Aber der Glaube an das Ideale, in dem alle Macht wie alle Ohnmacht der Demokratie begründet ist, [...]." - Römische Geschichte, Erster Band, Fünfte Auflage, Zweites Buch, Kapitel III, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1868, S. 317,
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„Jede große Zeit erfasst den ganzen Menschen.“

Theodor Mommsen buch Römische Geschichte

Römische Geschichte, Erster Band, Fünfte Auflage, Zweites Buch, Kapitel IX, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1868, S. 486,

„Wenn der Mensch keinen Genuss mehr in der Arbeit findet und bloss arbeitet, um so schnell wie möglich zum Genuss zu gelangen, so ist es nur ein Zufall, wenn er kein Verbrecher wird.“

Theodor Mommsen buch Römische Geschichte

Römische Geschichte, Erster Band, Fünfte Auflage, Drittes Buch, Kapitel XIII, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1868, S. 890,

„Es versteht sich von selbst, dass Caesar ein leidenschaflicher Mann war, denn ohne Leidenschaft giebt es keine Genialität; aber seine Leidenschaft war niemals mächtiger als er.“

Theodor Mommsen buch Römische Geschichte

Römische Geschichte, Dritter Band, Fünftes Buch, Kapitel XI, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1856, S. 429, DTA http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/mommsen_roemische03_1856/439

„Es ist die tiefste und herrlichste Wirkung der musischen Künste und vor allem der Poesie, dass sie die Schranken der bürgerlichen Gemeinden aufheben und aus den Stämmen ein Volk, aus den Völkern eine Welt erschaffen.“

Theodor Mommsen buch Römische Geschichte

Römische Geschichte, Erster Band, Fünfte Auflage, Erstes Buch, Kapitel XV, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1868, S. 233,

„Die Kunst des Messens unterwirft dem Menschen die Welt; durch die Kunst des Schreibens hört die Erkenntniss des Menschen auf so vergänglich zu sein wie er selbst ist; sie beide geben dem Menschen, was die Natur ihm versagte, Allmacht und Ewigkeit.“

Theodor Mommsen buch Römische Geschichte

Römische Geschichte, Erster Band, Erstes Buch, Kapitel XIV, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1854, S. 136, DTA http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/mommsen_roemische01_1854/150

Theodor Mommsen: Zitate auf Englisch

“The system of administration was thoroughly remodelled. The Sullan proconsuls and propraetors had been in their provinces essentially sovereign and practically subject to no control; those of Caesar were the well-disciplined servants of a stern master, who from the very unity and life-tenure of his power sustained a more natural and more tolerable relation to the subjects than those numerous, annually changing, petty tyrants. The governorships were no doubt still distributed among the annually-retiring two consuls and sixteen praetors, but, as the Imperator directly nominated eight of the latter and the distribution of the provinces among the competitors depended solely on him, they were in reality bestowed by the Imperator. The functions also of the governors were practically restricted. His memory was matchless, and it was easy for him to carry on several occupations simultaneously with equal self-possession. Although a gentleman, a man of genius, and a monarch, he had still a heart. So long as he lived, he cherished the purest veneration for his worthy mother Aurelia… to his daughter Julia he devoted an honourable affection, which was not without reflex influence even on political affairs. With the ablest and most excellent men of his time, of high and of humbler rank, he maintained noble relations of mutual fidelity… As he himself never abandoned any of his partisans… but adhered to his friends--and that not merely from calculation--through good and bad times without wavering, several of these, such as Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Matius, gave, even after his death, noble testimonies of their attachment to him. The superintendence of the administration of justice and the administrative control of the communities remained in their hands; but their command was paralyzed by the new supreme command in Rome and its adjutants associated with the governor, and the raising of the taxes was probably even now committed in the provinces substantially to imperial officials, so that the governor was thenceforward surrounded with an auxiliary staff which was absolutely dependent on the Imperator in virtue either of the laws of the military hierarchy or of the still stricter laws of domestic discipline. While hitherto the proconsul and his quaestor had appeared as if they were members of a gang of robbers despatched to levy contributions, the magistrates of Caesar were present to protect the weak against the strong; and, instead of the previous worse than useless control of the equestrian or senatorian tribunals, they had to answer for themselves at the bar of a just and unyielding monarch. The law as to exactions, the enactments of which Caesar had already in his first consulate made more stringent, was applied by him against the chief commandants in the provinces with an inexorable severity going even beyond its letter; and the tax-officers, if indeed they ventured to indulge in an injustice, atoned for it to their master, as slaves and freedmen according to the cruel domestic law of that time were wont to atone.”

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Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P.Dickson
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2

“Few men have had their elasticity so thoroughly put to the proof as Caesar-- the sole creative genius produced by Rome, and the last produced by the ancient world, which accordingly moved on in the path that he marked out for it until its sun went down. Sprung from one of the oldest noble families of Latium--which traced back its lineage to the heroes of the Iliad and the kings of Rome, and in fact to the Venus-Aphrodite common to both nations--he spent the years of his boyhood and early manhood as the genteel youth of that epoch were wont to spend them. He had tasted the sweetness as well as the bitterness of the cup of fashionable life, had recited and declaimed, had practised literature and made verses in his idle hours, had prosecuted love-intrigues of every sort, and got himself initiated into all the mysteries of shaving, curls, and ruffles pertaining to the toilette-wisdom of the day, as well as into the still more mysterious art of always borrowing and never paying. But the flexible steel of that nature was proof against even these dissipated and flighty courses; Caesar retained both his bodily vigour and his elasticity of mind and of heart unimpaired. In fencing and in riding he was a match for any of his soldiers, and his swimming saved his life at Alexandria; the incredible rapidity of his journeys, which usually for the sake of gaining time were performed by night--a thorough contrast to the procession-like slowness with which Pompeius moved from one place to another-- was the astonishment of his contemporaries and not the least among the causes of his success. The mind was like the body. His remarkable power of intuition revealed itself in the precision and practicability of all his arrangements, even where he gave orders without having seen with his own eyes. His memory was matchless, and it was easy for him to carry on several occupations simultaneously with equal self-possession. Although a gentleman, a man of genius, and a monarch, he had still a heart. So long as he lived, he cherished the purest veneration for his worthy mother Aurelia (his father having died early); to his wives and above all to his daughter Julia he devoted an honourable affection, which was not without reflex influence even on political affairs. With the ablest and most excellent men of his time, of high and of humbler rank, he maintained noble relations of mutual fidelity, with each after his kind. As he himself never abandoned any of his partisans after the pusillanimous and unfeeling manner of Pompeius, but adhered to his friends--and that not merely from calculation--through good and bad times without wavering, several of these, such as Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Matius, gave, even after his death, noble testimonies of their attachment to him.”

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Vol.4. Part 2.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2

“Of all pitiful parts none is more pitiful than passing for more than one really is; and it is the fate of monarchy that this misfortune inevitably clings to it, for barely once in a thousand years does there arise among the people a man who is king not merely in name, but in reality.”

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Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P.Dickson.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2

“History has a Nemesis for every sin—for an impotent craving after freedom, as well as for an injudicious generosity.”

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The History of Rome - Volume 2

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