GREGOROVIUS,
Ferdi nand, German historian and poet: b. Neiden burg, East Prussia, 1821; d. Munich, 1891. He received his education at Klinigsberg and then spent several years in Italy, where he wrote
'Lucrezia Borgia' (3d
1875) • 'Urban VIII im Widerspruch zu Spamen und dem Kaiser' (1879) ; 'Una Pianta di Roma delineate da Leonardo da Besozzo Milanese) (1883). On the culture of Greece he wrote 'Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur) (1887-92) ;
nais, Geschichte einer byzantinischen Kaiserin) (1882) ;
der Stadt Athen im Mit telalter) (2d ed., 1889). Besides these he published several poetical, dramatic and critical works including 'Werdomar und Wladislaw) (1845) 'Goethe's Wilhelm Meister in seinen, sozialistischen Elementen' (1849) ; 'Die Polen und Magyarenlieder' (1849) ; 'Der Tod des Tiberius) (1851), a tragedy;
(6th ed., 1891), an epic of Pompeii;
(1892). He edited 'Briefe Alexanders von Humboldt an seinen Bruder Wilhelm' (1880). His letters to Hermann von Thile were edited in 1894. Consult Miinz, (Ferd. Gregorovius und seine Bride an Grafin
(Berlin 1896).