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 Max Manitius (23 March 1858 - 21 September 1933) was a noted German medievalist and Latin scholar. Life and work Max Manitius, son of the Court Councillor and secretary in the Saxon Ministry of Justice Wilhelm Manitius (1808-1885), attended the ...

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 The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until c. 1980) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes ...

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)

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Bernhard Bischoff Bernhard Bischoff (20 December 1906 – 17 September 1991) was a German historian, paleographer, and philologist; he was born in Altendorf (administrative division of Altenburg, Thuringia), and he died in Munich. Biography He was the son of E ...

: '' bituary'. In: ''Jahrbuch der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften'' (1964), pp. 179–183. * : ''Paul Lehmann''. In: ''Forschungen und Fortschritte'' Jg. 39 (1965), pp. 94–95. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lehmann, Paul (palaeographer) German palaeographers Scientists from Braunschweig German philologists University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 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