Nictheroy
former capital of state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the bay, 5 miles from city of Rio de Janeiro.
Manufactures war munitions; the en- virons are beautiful. Pop. about 42,000. BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR, (nē'bör), a German historian and philologist; born in Copenhagen, Aug. 27, 1776. At the age of 18 he was sent to After holding situations in the University of Kiel, where he studied a government office at Copenhagen, he two years. the service of the King of Prussia. On was invited to Berlin in 1805, and entered the establishment of the University of the service of the King of Prussia. On the establishment of the University of NIEHAUS Roman history; and the lectures then delivered formed the basis of the great work by which his name is immortalized, "Roman History" (1811-1827). He served in the campaigns of 1813-1814, and was sent as ambassador to the papal court at Rome in 1816. Quitting Rome in 1823, he was appointed adjunct-professor at the new University of Bonn, where he occupied himself with the preparation of a new edition of his great work, and with a republication of the Byzantine historians. Niebuhr published, besides his history, "Minor Historical and Philological Writings," etc. The "Roman History" was translated into English by Hare and Thirlwall. He died in Bonn, Prussia, Jan. 2, 1831.