id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7343 Barthold Georg Niebuhr - Wikipedia .html text/html 2647 257 62 During his residence in Rome Niebuhr discovered and published fragments of Cicero and Livy, aided Cardinal Mai in his edition of Cicero's De re publica, and shared in framing the plan of the great work Beschreibung Roms ("The Description of the City of Rome") on the topography of ancient Rome by Christian Charles Josias Bunsen and Ernst Zacharias Platner (1773–1855), to which he contributed several chapters. He also, on a journey home from Italy, deciphered in a palimpsest at the Abbey of St. Gall the fragments of Flavius Merobaudes, a Roman poet of the 5th century.[5] As minister, he brought about the understanding between Prussia and the Pope signalized by the bull De salute animarum in 1821.[2] Niebuhr was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1822.[7] The first edition of Niebuhr's Roman History was translated into English by F. The life and letters of Barthold George Niebuhr (1852) online edition ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7343.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7343.txt