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. Having first pursued a business career in banking and textile industry and having lived for some time in

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, he moved to

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, Germany, in 1873 to study early English history, with

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as his mentors. After his promotion on the ''Dialogus de scaccario'' ("Dialogue of the Exchequer") in 1875, he rapidly earned a name for himself as a medieval historian. In 1896, he received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and later, the title of professor of history from the Prussian minister of justice Robert Bosse. He died in a car accident in Berlin, 1925.

Bibliography

Selected works by Liebermann

*1875. ''Dialogus de scaccario''. Dissertation. *1879. ''Ungedruckte anglo-normannische Geschichtsquellen''. Strasbourg. *1889. ''Die Heiligen Englands: Angelsächsisch und lateinisch''
Available from Google Books
*1892. ''

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. Ein englisches Rechtsbuch von 1114''. Halle. PDF available from Google Books
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*1893. ''Consiliatio Cnuti. Eine Übertragung angelsächsischer Gesetze aus dem zwölften Jahrhundert''. Halle. *1894. ''Über Pseudo-Cnuts Constitutiones de foresta''. Halle. *1894. ''Über die Leges Anglorum saeculo XIII, ineunte Londoniis collectae''. Halle. *1896. ''Über die Leges Edwardi Confessoris''. Halle. *1901. ''Über das englische rechtsbuch Leges Henrici''
PDF available from the Internet Archive
*1903-1916. ''Gesetze der Angelsachsen''. 3 vols. Halle. Standard edition, translation, dictionary and glossary of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon laws. Available from the Internet Archive:
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*1913. ''The national assembly in the Anglo-Saxon period''. Halle
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Biographies and obituaries

*Dammery, Richard J. "Editing the Anglo-Saxon Laws: Felix Liebermann and Beyond." ''The Editing of Old English'', ed. D. G. Scragg and Paul E. Szarmach. Cambridge, 1994. pp. 251–61. *Davis, H.W.C. "Felix Liebermann." ''

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'' 41 (1926). 91 ff. *Hazeltine, H. D. "Felix Liebermann, 1851-1925." ''Proceedings of the British Academy'' 24 (1938): 319–60. *Heymann, Ernst. "Felix Liebermann." ''Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung'' 46 (1926): xxiii-xxxix. *Tout, Thomas Frederick. "Felix Liebermann (1851-1925)." ''History'' NS 10 (1926): 311–19. *Scheer, Regina. ''Wir sind die Liebermanns. Die Geschichte einer Familie''. Berlin: Propyläen, 2006. .

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