Ludwig Traube (palaeographer)

Ludwig Traube ( born June 19, 1861 in Berlin, † May 19, 1907 in Munich) was a German classical scholar, medievalist and paleograph. He held the first chair of Medieval Latin in Germany at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.

Traube was born in Berlin as the son of a Jewish family; his father was the physician and pathologist Ludwig Traube. After graduating from the Gymnasium in Berlin Askanische 1880 he studied at the universities of Munich and Greifswald Classical Philology and Medieval Studies. In 1883 he received his doctorate in Munich; his dissertation Varia libamenta critica primarily involved with the sources of Macrobius. 1888 Grape habilitation studies on the poetry of the Carolingian period and taught in the following years as a lecturer. 1902 ( not 1904) he was appointed Full Professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages. Grape, married with a daughter Friedrich Hirth since 1900, died in 1907 from leukemia.

Since 1896, Grape was extraordinary, ordinary since 1899 member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, since 1902 member of the Accademia dei Lincei. From 1897 to 1904 he was a member of the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae (MGH ), where he took over the management of the departments Auctores Antiquissimi and Antiquities.

Grape mainly dealt with the Latin literature of the Middle Ages, paleography and the text and tradition history of Latin authors. Along with the acting in Göttingen Wilhelm Meyer applies grape as the founder of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages.

The estate belonged to his Traubes important private library, prints, manuscripts and photographs comprised of manuscripts and was promoted in his own lifetime of friends with an annual financial support. After his death from four codices and approximately 60 manuscript fragments of the Munich State Library were acquired, the remaining backlog decreased as a foundation to the Central Directorate of MGH and now forms the basis of the Monumenta library.

Writings

  • Carolingian seals. Ædelwulf, Alchuine, Angilbert, rhythms. Weidmann, Berlin, 1888.
  • O Roma nobilis. Philological studies of the Middle Ages. Munich 1891.
  • Textual history of the Regula S. St. Benedict. Munich 1898.
  • The history of tironischen notes on Suetonius and Isidore. Berlin 1901.
  • Looking back on my teaching activity. Munich 1901. Reprint Arbeo Society, Munich 1988.
  • Nomina Sacra. Attempt a history of the Christian shortening. Beck, Munich, 1907. Reprint University Press, Darmstadt 1967.
  • Lectures and essays. 3 volumes. From 1909 to 1920. ( Of Volume 2: Introduction to Latin Philology of the Middle Ages ).
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