Curtius, Ernst, a German archæologist and philosopher, born at Lübeck; travelled in Greece and Asia Minor; contributed much by his researches to the history of Greece, and of its legends and works of art; his jubilee as a professor was celebrated in 1891, when he received the congratulations of the Emperor William II., to whose father he at one time had acted as tutor; (b. 1814).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Curtius * Curtius, Georg