Ludwig Traube (June 19, 1861 – May 19, 1907) was a paleographer 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 sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

). He was a son of the physician Ludwig Traube (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

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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 Rosto ...

. In 1883 he finished his Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled ''Varia libamenta critica''. He finished his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...

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 The ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'' (''MGH'') is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empir ...

. In 1902 he was appointed professor of Latin philology of the Middle Ages at Munich. In 1905 he discovered that he had

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...

, 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 The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τ� ...

and

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. * ''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 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 traditional founding in ...

. * ''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) – Introduction to Latin philology of the Middle Ages. * ''Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen'', 1909–1920 (3 volumes, edited by Franz Boll, Samuel Brandt) – Lectures and essays.IDREF.fr
(bibliography)

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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 {{germany-linguist-stub