Marcus von Niebuhr

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Marcus Carsten Nicolaus Niebuhr , von Niebuhr since 1857 , (born April 1, 1817 in Rome , † August 1, 1860 in Oberweiler near Badenweiler) was a cabinet councilor to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

Marcus von Niebuhr was one of four children of Margarethe Luise Hensler and the German ancient historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr . He grew up in Rome and since 1823 in Bonn. He visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and through this time later made contact with the Jung-Lübeck renewal movement . Niebuhr studied in the cities of Kiel, Bonn, Berlin and Halle jurisprudence and was an employee in the Prussian Ministry of Culture and worked at the Kreuzzeitung with. In 1850 he was appointed government councilor and was in the diplomatic service for the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In 1854 he was appointed Cabinet Councilor and he was also a member of the Council of State. Niebuhr was ennobled at the beginning of 1857. When diplomatic files entrusted to him were stolen in 1856, this event led to serious health problems. He died a few years later in Oberweiler after this incident. He became literarily known through his story Assur's and Babel’s .

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  • Banking Revolution and Banking Reform (1846)
  • The German Sea Power and a German-Scandinavian Confederation (1848)
  • History of the Royal Bank in Berlin (1854)
  • History of Assyria and Babel since Phul: From the Concordance of the Old Testament, the Berossus, the Canon of Kings and the Greek writers; along with experiments on prehistoric times . Hertz, Berlin 1857.

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  1. ↑ Cf. Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexikon, ed. v. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , Vol. 6, Leipzig 1865. P. 507.
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SURNAME Niebuhr, Marcus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niebuhr, Markus Carsten Nicolaus from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1860
Place of death Oberweiler near Badenweiler