Wilhelm Ihne

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.

Ihne is remembered for the classic Römische Geschichte (History of Rome), 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, (1853).
• Early Rome : from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls (in English, 1875).[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009408252 Early Rome : from the foundation of the city to its destruction by the Gauls] HathiTrust Digital Library
• Zur Ehrenrettung des Kaisers Tiberius ("A plea of the Emperor Tiberius"), 1892.

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• [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://peter-hug.ch/lexikon/ihne/18_0453&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DIhne%2B%2522Forschungen%2Bauf%2Bdem%2BGebiet%2522%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG translated Biography] @ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=jskoAAAAYAAJ&q=Wilhelm+Ihne History of Rome (at Google Books)]
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• [https://archive.org/details/researchesintohi00ihneuoft Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution] in English translation and with an Appendix upon the Roman Knights (1853)
• History of Rome in English (at Internet Archive): five volumes from 1871 onwards: [https://archive.org/details/historyrome02unkngoog Volume 1] from Aeneas to the Conquest of Italy; [https://archive.org/details/historyofrome02ihneuoft Volume 2] covering the Punic Wars; [https://archive.org/details/historyofrome03ihne Volume 3] covering from 200 BC to 133 BC; [https://archive.org/details/historyofrome04ihne Volume 4] covering Roman institutions and the Gracchi; [https://archive.org/details/historyofrome05ihneuoft Volume 5] from the Jugurthine War to Sulla.
• Römische Geschichte in German (also at Internet Archive): remaining three volumes of Roman History covering roughly the period from Sulla's death to the dominance of Octavian / Augustus following the Battle of Actium in 31 BC: [https://archive.org/details/rmischegeschich03ihnegoog Volume 6] and [https://archive.org/details/rmischegeschich01ihnegoog Volumes 7 and 8 combined]
• [https://archive.org/details/earlyromefromfou00ihne Early Rome : from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls] in English translation (1898)

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