- Ernst Dümmler
Ernst Ludwig Dümmler (
2 January 1830 -11 September 1902 ) was a Germanhistorian .The son of
Ferdinand Dümmler (1777-1846), a Berlin bookseller, Ernst Ludwig was born inBerlin . He studied at Bonn underJohann Wilhelm Löbell (1786-1863), underLeopold von Ranke andWilhelm Wattenbach , and his doctor's dissertation, "De Arnulfo Francorum rege" (Berlin, 1852), was a notable essay.He entered the faculty at Halle in 1855, and started an historical Seminar. In 1858 he became professor extraordinary, in 1866 full professor. In 1875 he became a member of the revised committee directing the "
Monumenta Germaniae Historica ", himself undertaking the direction of the section "Antiquitates," and in 1888 became president of the central board in Berlin. This was an official recognition of Dümmler's leading position among German historians.In addition to numerous critical works and editions of texts, he published:
*"Piligrim von Passau und des ErzbistumLorch " (1854)
*"Über die alteren Slawen inDalmatien " (1856)
*"Das Formelbuch des BischofsSalomo III. von Konstanz" (1857)
*"Anseim der Peripatetiker" (1872)His great work was the "Geschichte des ostfrankischen Reiches" (Berlin, 1862-1865, Sn. 2 vols.; 2nd ed. 1887-1888, in 3 vols.). In conjunction with Wattenbach he completed the "Monumenia Alcuiniana" (Berlin, 1873), which had been begun byPhilipp Jaffe , and withR. Köpke he wrote "Kaiser Otto der Grosse" (Leipzig, 1876).He edited the first and second volumes of the "Poetae latini aevi Carolini" for the "Monumenta Germaniae historica" (Berlin, 1881-1884).
His son,
Ferdinand Dümmler (1859-1896), an archaeologist and philologist, was professor at theUniversity of Basel from 1890 until his death on15 November 1896 .References
*1911
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