Max Lehmann

Max Lehmann ( born May 19, 1845 in Berlin, † October 8, 1929 in Göttingen ) was a German historian and university professor.

He studied in Königsberg, Bonn and Berlin, first classical philology and then historians. It counts as a student of Leopold von Ranke to the Neorankianern. In 1879 he taught at the Berlin Military Academy, he was next in the archive service operates. A year later he was appointed to the University of Marburg as professor of history and in 1892 as professor in Leipzig. In 1893, he was Professor of History of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Göttingen.

He worked in some studies with Martin Luther. Lehmann kicked legends in the history. He was convinced that politics and history no more dangerous enemy than the chauvinism. He was a critic of the Wilhelmine imperialism and later a supporter of the Weimar Constitution.

Lehmann was mostly polemical and was designated as a conservative firebrand. He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, from which he resigned in 1902 after the election of the Wroclaw Cardinal Kopp. The introduction of the first volumes of which he edited the work Prussia and the Catholic Church was the Centre Party rise to sharp criticism. Due to the intervention of Otto von Bismarck and Heinrich von Sybel, who made the series, he resigned in the following volumes on an introduction.

For his work on the Freiherr vom Stein, he received an honorary doctorate from each of the Law School of the University of Giessen and the theological faculty of the University of Berlin.

Writings

• The line-up for Helgeland Otto II to Italy., 1869.
• The War of 1870 to the of Metz. In 1873.
• Knesebeckstraße and Schon. Contributions to the History of the Wars of Liberation. In 1875.
• Stein, Scharnhorst and the Beautiful. In 1877.
• Scharnhorst. From 1886 to 1887.
• Frederick the Great. In 1894.
• Freiherr vom Stein. From 1902 to 1905.
• Historical essays and speeches., 1911.
• The survey of 1813. 1913.

• Prussia and the Catholic Church since 1640th until 1897 according to the Acts of the Secret State Archives. Hirzel Verlag, Leipzig 1893.