Ludwig Traube (June 19, 1861 – May 19, 1907) was a
paleographer
Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...
and held the first chair of
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functioned ...
in Germany (at the
University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's List of universities in Germany, sixth-oldest u ...
). He was a son of the physician
Ludwig Traube Ludwig Traube may refer to:
*Ludwig Traube (physician) (1818–1876), German physician and co-founder of experimental pathology in Germany
*Ludwig Traube (palaeographer) (1861–1907), his son, German paleographer
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(1818–1876), and the brother of the chemist
Margarete Traube
Margarete Traube (also known as Margherita Traube Mengarini) (4 June 1856 – 11 December 1912) was a German-born chemist, salon holder, and early feminist who lived in Italy much of her adult life.
Biography
Traube was born in Berlin, Germany ...
(1856–1912).
Biography
Traube was born in Berlin, the son of a middle-class Jewish family, and studied at the universities of
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
and
Greifswald
Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...
. In 1883 he finished his Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled ''Varia libamenta critica''. He finished his
habilitation
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in classical and medieval philology in 1888 with a part of his book on Carolingian poetry (''Karolingische Dichtungen'').
In 1897 he became a member of the central management of
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
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. In 1902 he was appointed professor of Latin philology of the Middle Ages at Munich. In 1905 he discovered that he had
leukemia
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, dying from it two years later.
Selected works
* ''O Roma nobilis : philologische Untersuchungen aus dem Mittelalter'', 1891 –
O Roma nobilis: philological studies from the Middle Ages.
* ''Textgeschichte der Regula S. Benedicti'', 1898 – Textual history of
Regula Benedicti.
* ''Die Geschichte der tironischen Noten bei Suetonius und Isidorus'', 1901 (2 volumes) – The history of
Tironian notes
Tironian notes ( la, notae Tironianae, links=no) are a set of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of shorthand (Tironian shorthand) dating from the 1st century BCE and named after Tiro, a personal secretary to Marcus Tullius Ci ...
from
Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
His most important surviving work is a set of biographies ...
and
Isidorus
Isidorus (born c. 139) was a native ancient Egyptian priest in the 2nd century during the Roman rule in Egypt. He led the native Egyptian revolt against Roman rule during the reign of emperor Marcus Aurelius.Dio CassiusEpitome 72/ref> The likely ...
.
* ''Jean-Baptiste Maugérard: ein Beitrag zur Bibliotheksgeschicthe'', 1904 – Jean-Baptiste Maugérard, a contribution to library history.
* ''Bamberger Fragmente der vierten Dekade des Livius'', 1906 – Bamberger fragments of the fourth decade of
Livy
Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Ancient Rome, Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditiona ...
.
* ''Nomina sacra : Versuch einer Geschichte der christlichen Kürzung'', 1907 –
Nomina sacra
In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: ''nomen sacrum'' from Latin ''sacred name'') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A nomen sacrum consists ...
. Essay on the history of Christian abbreviations.
* ''Zur Paläographie und Handschriftenkunde'', 1909 (edited by
Franz Boll) – On palaeography and manuscript studies.
* ''Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters'', 1911 (edited by Franz Boll,
Paul Lehmann
Paul Lehmann (13 July 1884 – 4 January 1964) was a German paleographer and philologist.Memoir by Harry Caplan, Taylor Starck, and B. L. Ullman in ''Speculum'' Vol. 40, No. 3, Jul. 1965, p. 583
Biography
Paul Lehmann was the son of business ...
) – Introduction to Latin philology of the Middle Ages.
* ''Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen'', 1909–1920 (3 volumes, edited by Franz Boll, Samuel Brandt) – Lectures and essays.
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References
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1861 births
1907 deaths
19th-century German writers
19th-century German male writers
19th-century philologists
Deaths from leukemia
19th-century German Jews
German palaeographers
German philologists
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty
People from the Province of Brandenburg
University of Greifswald alumni
Writers from Berlin
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