- Philipp Jaffé
Infobox_Scientist
name = Philipp Jaffé
caption = Portrait by an unknown photographer
birth_date = birth date|1819|2|17|mf=y
birth_place =Schwersenz ,Prussia
death_date = death date and age|1870|4|3|1819|2|17
death_place =Wittenberge , Prussia
residence = Flagcountry|Prussia
nationality = German
field = Historian and philologist
work_institution =Humboldt University of Berlin
alma_mater = Humboldt University of Berlin
doctoral_advisor =Leopold von Ranke
known_for = "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum"
religion = Jewish (*-1868)
Protestant (1868-†)Philipp Jaffé (
February 17 ,1819 –April 3 ,1870 ) was a German historian and philologist. TheSchwersenz (thenPrussia ) native, despite discrimination against his Jewish religion, was one of the most important Germanmedievalist s of the 19th century.After graduating from the gymnasium at
Posen in 1838 he went toBerlin , entering a banking-house. Two years later he abandoned commercial life and studied atHumboldt University of Berlin (Ph.D. 1844). Seven years later appeared his great work, "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ab Condita Ecclesia ad Annum p. Ch. n. 1198," containing 11,000 papal documents, Berlin, 1851 (2d ed. by Löwenfeld, Kaltenbrunner, and Ewald, Leipzig, 1885-88). This work made him well known, but he had still to earn a livelihood; he therefore again entered the university, this time as a student of medicine, at Berlin and later atVienna . Graduating as M.D. from Berlin in 1853, he engaged in practise in that city for a year, and then became one of the editors of the "Monumenta Germaniae Historica ." This position he resigned in 1863, his chief work having been vols. xii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, and xx of the "Scriptores."In 1862 Jaffé was appointed assistant professor of history at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he lectured on Latin
paleography and Roman and medievalchronology . In 1868 he became aChristian . During the last year of his life he suffered from "delirium persecutionis ."Jaffé wrote, in addition to the above-mentioned works, "Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches unter Lothar dem Sachsen," Berlin, 1843; "Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches unter Konrad III." Hanover, 1845; and "Bibliotheca Rerum Germanicarum," ib. 1864-71. Jaffé furthermore collaborated with
Wilhelm Wattenbach in editing the "Ecclesiæ Metropolitanæ Coloniensis Codices," which was published (Berlin, 1879) by Wattenbach after Jaffé's death. Jaffé committed suicide atWittenberge onApril 3 ,1870 .References
*JewishEncyclopedia
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