Paul Lehmann (13 July 1884 – 4 January 1964) was a German
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
philologist
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
.
[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 businessman Gustav Lehmann and his wife Louisa Meyer. After attending school in his hometown, Lehmann started studying at the
University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
. A successor to
Ludwig Traube, Paul Lehmann began as docent at the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1911 and became professor of medieval Latin philology there in 1917. Author of a dissertation on Franciscus Modius and a ''Habilitationsschrift'' on Johannes Sichardus, he made numerous contributions to the ''Sitzungsberichte der bayerischen Akademie''. He is best known for ''Parodie im Mittelalter'' (1922). He also authored ''Pseudo-Antike Literatur des Mittelalters'' (1927) and published ''Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz''. Lehmann assisted
Max Manitius in the preparation of the third volume of the ''Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters''.
He was named a Corresponding Fellow of the
Medieval Academy of America
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in 1926, as well as fellow of numerous other European academies. A Festschrift entitled ''Liber Floridus'', in honor of his sixty-fifth birthday, was published in 1950.
Publications
* ''Franciscus Modius'' 1908
* ''Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz'' (1918 ff.)
* ''Die Parodie im Mittelalter'' (1922, 2nd edition 1963)
* ''Das literarische Bild Karls des Großen vornehmlich im lateinischen Schrifttum des Mittelalters'' (1934)
* ''Geschichte der Fuggerbibliotheken'' (1956/60, 2 volumes)
* ''Pseudoantike Literatur'' (1927)
* ''Gesta Ernesti ducis'' (1927)
* ''Judas Ischarioth'' (1930)
* ''Skandinavische Reisefrüchte'' (1935/39)
Notes
References
*
Bernhard Bischoff: ''
bituary'. In: ''Jahrbuch der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften'' (1964), pp. 179–183.
* : ''Paul Lehmann''. In: ''Forschungen und Fortschritte'' Jg. 39 (1965), pp. 94–95.
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German palaeographers
Scientists from Braunschweig
German philologists
University of Göttingen alumni
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty
1884 births
1964 deaths
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
Ahnenerbe members
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
20th-century philologists