Ernst Ludwig Dümmler (2 January 183011 September 1902) was a German

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Biography

Ernst Ludwig was born in

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, the son of (1777–1846), a Berlin bookseller. He studied

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and

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, among other things, at

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under

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, and in

, where his influences were

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and

Wilhelm Wattenbach Wilhelm Wattenbach (22 September 181920 September 1897), was a German historian. He was born at Rantzau in Holstein. He studied philology at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin, and in 1843 he began to work upon the ''Monumenta Ge ...

. His doctorate dissertation, ''De Arnulfo Francorum rege'' (Berlin, 1852), was a notable essay among historians. He entered the faculty at

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in 1855, and started an historical seminar. In 1858 he became an associate professor, in 1866 full professor. In 1875, he became a member of the revised committee directing the ''

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'', himself undertaking the direction of the section "Antiquitates". In 1888 he became president of the central board in Berlin. This was an official recognition of Dümmler's leading position among German historians.

Selected works

In addition to numerous critical works and editions of texts, he published: * ''Piligrim von Passau und das Erzbistum Lorch'' (1854) –

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and the

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. * ''Uber die älteste geschichte der Slawen in Dalmatien, 549-928'' (1856) – On the early history of the Slavs in

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(549-928) * ''Das Formelbuch des Bischofs Salomo III von Konstanz aus dem neunten Jahrhundert'' (1857) – Formulary of Bishop Solomon III of Constance from the ninth century. * ''Anselm Der Peripatetiker'' (1872) –

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. His great work was the ''Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches'' (Berlin, 1862–1865, 2 volumes; 2nd ed. 1887–1888, in 3 volumes). In conjunction with Wattenbach he completed the ''Monumenta Alcuiniana'' (Berlin, 1873), which had been begun by

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, and with

Rudolf Köpke Rudolf Köpke (23 August 1813 – 10 June 1870) was a German historian born in Königsberg. Biography From 1832 he studied theology in Berlin, where his interest changed to history under the influence of Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). With Ge ...

he wrote ''Kaiser Otto der Grosse'' (Leipzig, 1876). He edited the anonymous Lorsch riddles twice—first in 1879 and then again two years later in 1881. He also edited the first and second volumes of the "Poetae latini aevi Carolini" for the ''Monumenta Germaniae historica'' (Berlin, 1881–84).Poetae latini aevi Carolini. Tomus 1-2
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Family

His son, Ferdinand Dümmler (1859–1896), an archaeologist and philologist, was professor at the

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from 1890 until his death on 15 November 1896, aged 37.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dummler, Ernst 19th-century German people 19th-century German historians University of Bonn alumni Writers from Berlin 1830 births 1902 deaths 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers