Felix Liebermann

Felix Liebermann, portrayed by Max Liebermann around 1865

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

Life

Felix Liebermann was the youngest of four sons of the Berlin industrialist and citizen Louis Liebermann. He was born in 1851 exactly four years to the day after his brother Max Liebermann . His oldest brother was the entrepreneur Georg Liebermann . Max and Felix Liebermann were very close in their youth. From the brotherly love a friendship developed that lasted until Felix Liebermann's death in 1925. In 1865 the young Max Liebermann made a portrait of his brother, the first portrait work of the later world-famous painter.

Felix Liebermann trained as a banker after graduating from high school in Friedrichswerder . He then worked for two years in the sewing thread export business in Manchester . There he came closer to the British way of life and developed a pronounced Anglophilia . From 1873 he studied history in Göttingen . His doctoral thesis from 1875 was titled Dialogus de saccario . Following his interest in Great Britain, he studied the medieval history of England as an independent historian and in 1879 published the Anglo-Norman historical sources.

In 1896 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the prestigious universities of Oxford and Cambridge . Max Liebermann accompanied him to receive this title in England. The Prussian Minister of Education, Robert Bosse , appointed him Professor of History. In 1908 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In the same year he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The British Academy accepted him in 1909 as a corresponding member. Felix Liebermann died in a car accident near the zoo at the age of 74 .

Publications

Anglo-Norman History Sources, 1879
The Laws of the Anglo-Saxons, 3 volumes, 1903–1916

literature

Regina Scheer : We are the Liebermanns. A family story. Propylaea, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-549-07288-0 .
Raoul C. Van Caenegem : Liebermann, Felix. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 480 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Felix Liebermann - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Felix Liebermann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 151.
^ Felix Liebermann obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 30, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Liebermann, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1925
Place of death	Berlin

[1] 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. 151.

[2] Felix Liebermann obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).

[3] Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 30, 2020 .