Gregorovius,

Gregorovius, FERDINAND, a distinguished German historian, born in East Prussia, 19th January 1821. He studied theology at Königsberg, but soon devoted himself to poetry and literature. In 1852 he settled in Rome, where he died 1st May 1891. His great work is the History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages (8 vols. 1859-72; translated from the 4th German edition, vols. i. and ii. 1895). He wrote also on Italian geography and history, on Corsica (1854), Capri, and Corfu, on the graves of the Popes (1857; 2d ed. 1881), on Lucrezia Borgia (1874), on Urban VIII. (1879), on Athens (1889), and on the Byzantine empress, Athenais (3d ed. 1891); also a tragedy on the death of Tiberius (1851), and an epic, Euphorion (6th ed. 1891).