Felix Liebermann

Felix Liebermann ( born July 20, 1851 in Berlin, † October 7, 1925 ) was a German historian.

Life

The youngest of the three sons of the Berlin industrialists and citizens Louis Liebermann was born in 1851 on the day exactly four years after his brother Max Liebermann. His oldest brother was George Liebermann. Max and Felix Liebermann were very close in their youth. From brotherly love, a friendship that lasted until the death in 1925 Felix Liebermann's developed. 1865 made ​​the young Max Liebermann, a portrait of his brother, the first portrait painter of the later works of world fame.

Felix Liebermann made ​​after graduating from high school Friedrichwerder'schen training as a banker. He then worked for two years in the export business of sewing thread in Manchester. There he came to the British way of life closer and developed a pronounced Anglophilia. From 1873 he studied in Göttingen history. His doctoral thesis from 1875 was entitled Dialogus de saccario. His interest in the UK following, he studied as an independent historian with the medieval history of England and was the 1879 Anglo -Norman historical sources out.

In 1896 he was appointed by the prestigious universities of Oxford and Cambridge an honorary doctorate. To answer this Title in England he was accompanied by Max Liebermann. The Prussian Minister Robert Bosse appointed him professor of history. At the age of 74 years, Felix Liebermann died near the Tiergarten from the consequences of a car accident.

Publications

• Anglo Norman historical sources, 1879
• The laws of the Anglo-Saxons, 3 volumes, 1903-1916