Wilhelm Ihne

Joseph Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Ihne (2 February 1821 – 21 March 1902) was a German historian who was a native of Fürth. He was the father of architect Ernst von Ihne (1848–1917).

Wilhelm Ihne

Life

He studied philology at Bonn, obtaining his degree in 1843 with a thesis titled Quaestiones Terentianae. From 1847 to 1849 he was a teacher in Elberfeld, afterwards moving to England, where he taught school in Liverpool until 1863. He returned to Germany as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1873 he was appointed professor. He died in Heidelberg.

Works

Ihne is remembered for the classic Römische Geschichte (History of Rome), a work published in eight volumes from 1868 to 1890, and also translated into English. Other works on Roman history by Ihne include:

  • Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der rom Verfassungsgeschichte, 1847; later published in English as: Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution, (1853).
  • Early Rome : from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls (in English, 1875).[1]
  • Zur Ehrenrettung des Kaisers Tiberius ("A plea of the Emperor Tiberius"), 1892.

References
  1. Early Rome : from the foundation of the city to its destruction by the Gauls HathiTrust Digital Library

Bibliography
  • translated Biography @ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
  • History of Rome (at Google Books)
  • Author:Wilhelm Ihne  – via Wikisource.
  • Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution in English translation and with an Appendix upon the Roman Knights (1853)
  • History of Rome in English (at Internet Archive): five volumes from 1871 onwards: Volume 1 from Aeneas to the Conquest of Italy; Volume 2 covering the Punic Wars; Volume 3 covering from 200 BC to 133 BC; Volume 4 covering Roman institutions and the Gracchi; Volume 5 from the Jugurthine War to Sulla.
  • Römische Geschichte in German (also at Internet Archive): remaining three volumes of Roman History covering roughly the period from Sulla's death to the dominance of Octavian / Augustus following the Battle of Actium in 31 BC: Volume 6 and Volumes 7 and 8 combined
  • Early Rome : from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls in English translation (1898)


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