Ernst Ludwig Dümmler

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

Life

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

In 1858 he received after a habilitation thesis on the Bohemian royal rule (" De Bohemiae conditione Carolis imperantibus ") an extraordinary professorship at the University of Halle and finally in 1866 the chair for history and historical auxiliary sciences . His research areas were the Frankish history of the 9th century and the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the 10th and 11th centuries.

Dümmler became a member of Monumenta Germaniae Historica in 1876 and, in 1888, Georg Waitz's successor as its president, an office that he held until his death. In 1896 Dümmler became a member of the founding commission of the German Legal Dictionary (DRW). From 1871 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and from 1882 a corresponding and from 1888 a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1867 to 1886 he was a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1869 he received the Verdun Prize . In 1893 he was made an honorary member of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings .

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

Fonts

Monographs

History of the East Franconian Empire , Berlin 1862–1865.
Emperor Otto the Great (with Rudolf Köpke ), Leipzig 1876.

Editorships

The formula book of Bishop Solomon III. von Konstanz (Notker Balbulus) , 1857.
Poetae latini aevi Carolini , 1880/1884.
Epistolae Karolini aevi , 1892-1902.
The “Liber ad amicum” by Bonizo von Sutri , 1891.

literature

Friedrich Baethgen : Dümmler, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 161 ( digitized version ).
Andreas Ranft : Medieval Studies in Halle around 1900. The historians Ernst Dümmler and Theodor Lindner. In: Werner Freitag (Hrsg.): Halle and German history around 1900. Contributions to the colloquium "125 Years of the Historical Seminar at the University of Halle" on 4th / 5th. November 2000 (= Studies on State History. Vol. 5). mdv, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2002, ISBN 3-89812-109-7 , pp. 158-172.

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Ludwig Dümmler - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Ernst Ludwig Dümmler in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Ernst Ludwig Dümmler in the German Digital Library
Publications by and about Ernst Dümmler in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
Entry on Ernst Ludwig Dümmler in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Information system of the MGH library

Remarks

↑ Member entry of Ernst Dümmler at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 29, 2017.
^ Members of the previous academies. Ernst Dümmler. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 17, 2015 .
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 72.
↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018 . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings 136 (2018), p. 74.

personal data
SURNAME	Dümmler, Ernst Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 2, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1902
Place of death	Friedrichroda

[1] Member entry of Ernst Dümmler at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 29, 2017.

[2] Members of the previous academies. Ernst Dümmler. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 17, 2015 .

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 72.

[4] Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018 . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings 136 (2018), p. 74.