Portrait of Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen. Born 30 November 1817 in Garding, Germany. Died 1 November 1903 in Berlin, Germany. Photolithography after Philipp Christian Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910), 1898. Good condition. Paper slightly soiled. Verso: blank. Dimensions: 243 x 176 mm. Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was Classicist, Jurist, Politician, Writer, Historian, Author, Journalist, Archaeologist, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate, and Regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century.
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