Wilhelm Ihne

Joseph Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Ihne was a German historian who was a native of Fürth. He was the father of architect Ernst von 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, 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,.Early Rome : from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls.Zur Ehrenrettung des Kaisers Tiberius, 1892.