UNIVERSITY. Of California. DISCOURSE. In a letter from Rome, dated June 7, 1822, Barthold George Niebuhr, the historian of Rome, wrote thus to his sister-in-law, Madame Hensler: He "A young man, Lieber of Berlin, has arrived here who went as a volunteer to Greece, and at length returned, partly not to die of hunger, partly because the rascality of the Moreans and their cowardice became insufferable to him. His veracity is beyond suspicion and his tales fill the hearer with horror. is sad and melancholy, because his soul is very noble. He interests and touches us much, and we try to cheer him by kindness. He belongs to the youth of the beautiful time of 1813, when he fought and was severely wounded. He is now here without a cent. I shall help him at any rate." The young man, whose arrival in Rome was thus noticed, was twenty-two years of age. Of a gentle, but brave and self-reliant nature, of studious habits, a philosophical turn of mind, and very fond of books, he had already experienced much of the roughest discipline of life. His Biographic Information (Lebensnachrichten) concerning Barthold George Niebuhr, from Letters by himself and Recollections of some of his intimate friends. Vol. ii. p. 496, Hamburg, 1838, 3 vols. |