The Influence of Neb

§ 1. The influence of Niebuhr. WITH the eighteenth century, or, more precisely, in its concluding decade, the delay two of its three great British historians had passed away; and it was as if, beneath the shadow of the imposing names of Hume, Robertson and Gibbon, no increase of rival dignity and splendour could venture to rear its head. During the ensuing years of long-sustained national effort, few minds cared to concentrate themselves upon a close down study of past public life. Yet, when this period came to an end with the Napoleonic, that had big(a) out of the revolutionary, wars, it was not, in the first instance, a patriotic desire which turned attention back to historic studies. Nor, although in our literature the efforts of the romantic school were then at their height, and although, both here and in other countries, the influence of Scott, more powerfully than that of each other poet or prose writer, changed alike the spirit and the form of historical composition, were the revival of the study of history and the reassertion of the claim of historians to a place of honour among English writers due, primarily at all(a) events, to an intellectual reaction.

The motive force which, first and foremost, inspired the tender progress of English historical literature in the ordinal century is to be sought in what has been aptly called the siemens revival of classical learning in Europe, but what may be more exactly described as the beginnings of by and by critical scholarship. In the field of history, the search for materials and the examination of them now first became an integral part of the historians task, without pretending to suppress composition, or, in other words, the literary or artistic attitude of his labours. F. A. Wolf had led the way on which, in Greek historical studies, Otfried Müller and Boeckh 1 followed; but it was Niebuhr who placed historical writing on an entirely new basis; and it was his everlasting History of Rome which first conveyed to his English... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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