Ernst Dümmler

Ernst Ludwig Dümmler ( born January 2, 1830 in Berlin, † September 11, 1902 in Friedrichroda ) was a German historian.

Ernst Dümmler, son of the Berlin bookseller Ferdinand Dümmler, studied law in Bonn and Berlin, classical philology and history, among others, Johann Wilhelm loebell, Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm Wattenbach. In 1852 he finished his studies in Berlin with a dissertation on Arnulf of Carinthia ( " De Arnulfo Francorum active ").

In 1858 he received after a habilitation thesis on the Bohemian kingship ( " De Carolis Bohemiae conditione imperantibus " ) as an associate professor at the University of Halle, and finally in 1866 the Department of History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences. His area of ​​research was the Frankish history of the 9th century and the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the 10th and 11th centuries.

Dümmler 1876 Member of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae and 1888 as the successor to Georg Waitz its president, an office which he held until his death. 1896 Dümmler member of the founding committee of the German legal dictionary ( DRW).

His son Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1859-1896) was Classic philologist and archaeologist.

Works

• History of the East Frankish kingdom, Berlin 1862-1865
• Emperor Otto the Great ( with Rudolf Kopke ), Leipzig 1876

As editor:

• The formula book of Bishop Solomon III. of Constance ( Notker Balbulus ), 1857
• Poetae latini aevi Carolini, 1880/1884
• Epistolae Karolini aevi, 1892-1902