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Otto Seeck (2 February 1850 - 29 June 1921) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 classical historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
. He was born in Riga
Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
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Received his teaching credentials in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 in 1877, and with the support of Theodor Mommsen
Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a Germany classics, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century....
 was appointed to a position with the University of Greifswald, where he met Karl Julius Beloch
Karl Julius Beloch

Karl Julius Beloch was a German classical antiquity and economic historian who was a native of Pieszk?w.In 1870 he moved to Italy for health reasons, where he subsequently studied in Palermo and Rome....
 who had quarrelled with Mommsen. In 1907 Seeck relocated to the University of Münster
University of Münster

The University of M?nster is a public university located in the city of M?nster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities....
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His best known work is Geschichte des Untergangs der antiken Welt (History of the decline of the ancient world), which set forth his beliefs concerning Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism refers to various ideologies based on a concept that competition among all individuals, groups, nations, or ideas drives social evolution in human societies....
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Otto Seeck (2 February 1850 - 29 June 1921) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 classical historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
. He was born in Riga
Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
.

Received his teaching credentials in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 in 1877, and with the support of Theodor Mommsen
Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a Germany classics, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century....
 was appointed to a position with the University of Greifswald, where he met Karl Julius Beloch
Karl Julius Beloch

Karl Julius Beloch was a German classical antiquity and economic historian who was a native of Pieszk?w.In 1870 he moved to Italy for health reasons, where he subsequently studied in Palermo and Rome....
 who had quarrelled with Mommsen. In 1907 Seeck relocated to the University of Münster
University of Münster

The University of M?nster is a public university located in the city of M?nster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities....
.

His best known work is Geschichte des Untergangs der antiken Welt (History of the decline of the ancient world), which set forth his beliefs concerning Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism refers to various ideologies based on a concept that competition among all individuals, groups, nations, or ideas drives social evolution in human societies....
. This book later influenced Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West in which he puts forth a cyclical pattern theory of the rise and decline of civilizations....
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