Ludwig Bertalot
Ludwig Bertalot (born November 28, 1884 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 27, 1960 in Weilmünster ) was a German private scholar who primarily researched manuscripts of German and Italian Renaissance humanism .
Bertalot attended the Lessinggymnasium in his hometown, where he passed his Abitur in 1903, and then studied in Marburg , Berlin and Munich . Ludwig Traube and August Wilmanns were among his teachers . In Berlin, Bertalot received his doctorate in 1908 with a dissertation on a humanist manuscript owned by the Munich University Library .
Because of a serious language problem he was unable to pursue an academic career, so he worked for the antiquarian bookshops of Jacques Rosenthal in Munich and Leo S. Olschky in Florence as well as for the Vatican Library . While traveling all over Europe, he acquired extensive personal knowledge of the manuscript tradition of the most important libraries.
Bertalot published numerous editions , essays and reviews. One of his students and friends was the Renaissance researcher Paul Oskar Kristeller , whom he hired as an assistant in Rome in 1938, despite the most modest of resources, until Kristeller was able to emigrate to America.
Bertalot's estate is in the German Historical Institute in Rome .
literature
- Paul Oskar Kristeller : Ludwig Bertalot † (obituary) , in: Archives for Cultural History , Volume 42 (1960), 388–389
- Paul Oskar Kristeller: Bibliography, in: Scriptorium 1962, 102–104 ( online )
Web links
- Bertalot, Ludwig . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Peter Obermayer: German Antiquities in American Exile: A Reconstruction, Berlin / Boston 2014, 477-481.
- ^ Paul Oskar Kristeller, Hermann Goldbrunner , Karsten Jedlitschka: N 16 Ludwig Bertalot (1884–1960) , overview of the estate, 2005.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertalot, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Renaissance researcher and bibliographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1960 |
| Place of death | Weilmünster |