Nobel Prize

Hermann Emil Fischer was born on October 9, 1852, at Euskirchen, in the Cologne district. His father was a successful business man. After three years with a private tutor, Emil went to the local school and then spent two years at school at Wetzlar, and two more at Bonn where he passed his final examination…

more

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903), the greatest classical historian of the nineteenth century, was born in Garding, Schleswig, the son of a Protestant minister. He read law and classics at Kiel from 1838-43, and after a few years in France and Italy and a short career in journalism, he became a professor of law at the University…

more

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the on December 10, 1902 The second paragraph of the Nobel statutes states that «Literature» should include not only belles-lettres, «but also other writings that in form or content show literary value». This definition sanctions the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to philosophers, writers…

more

Works in German Liederbuch dreier Freunde / Theodor Mommsen, Theodor Storm, Tycho Mommsen. – Kiel, 1843 Oskische Studien. – Berlin : Nicolai, 1845-1846. – 2 vol. Die Grundrechte des deutschen Volkes, mit Belehrungen und Erläuterungen. – Leipzig : Wigand, 1849. – Rev. ed., Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1969 Die unteritalischen Dialekte. – Leipzig : Wigand, 1850…

more

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was born at Arnhem, The Netherlands, on July 18, 1853, as the son of nursery-owner Gerrit Frederik Lorentz and his wife née Geertruida van Ginkel. When he was four years old, his mother died, and in 1862 his father married Luberta Hupkes. In those days the grade school did not only have…

more