This essay argues that the history of knowledge, especially when applied to humanistic knowledge making, ought not to study practices of knowing to the exclusion of the peculiarities of individuals and the specifics of the wider contexts in which they operate. It uses the life and work of the Roman historian Theodor Mommsen as a case study, sketching first his qualities as a writer and political actor formed by the particularities of the post‐Romantic era. Showing that Mommsen belongs to the world of realist writers and liberal nationalist reformers, this essay then demonstrates how much these aspects of his thought‐world resonated with and informed the ways in which he practiced as a scholar. This essay aims to remind historians of the humanities that a focus on practices of knowing might bring us into exciting conversations with historians of science, but we ought not to lose touch with our colleagues in general and intellectual history.

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威严的语境和实践：狄奥多·莫姆森（Theodor Mommsen）和十九世纪人类知识的许多维度

本文认为，知识的历史，特别是应用于人文知识的知识的历史，不应该研究知道排除个人特殊性和他们所处的更广泛环境的具体细节的实践。它以罗马历史学家西奥多·莫姆森（Theodor Mommsen）的生活和工作作为案例研究，首先勾勒了他作为后浪漫时代特殊性所形成的作家和政治演员的素质。通过证明蒙姆森属于现实主义作家和自由民族主义改革家的世界，这篇文章然后证明了他的思想世界在这些方面产生了多少共鸣，并为他作为学者的实践提供了信息。