Nobel Prize in Literature 1902

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1902 was awarded to Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome"

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