Ludwig Traube (philologist)

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Ludwig Traube (born June 19, 1861 in Berlin , † May 19, 1907 in Munich ) was a German classical philologist , medievalist and paleographer . He held the first professorship for Middle Latin in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Traube was born in Berlin to a Jewish family; his father was the doctor and pathologist Ludwig Traube . After graduating from the Askanisches Gymnasium in Berlin in 1880, he studied classical philology and medieval studies at the universities of Munich and Greifswald . In 1883 he received his doctorate in Munich; his dissertation Varia libamenta critica dealt mainly with the sources of Macrobius . In 1888, Traube completed his habilitation with studies on the poetry of the Carolingian era and taught in the following years as a private lecturer. In 1902 (not 1904) he was appointed full professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages. Traube, married to a daughter of the sinologist Friedrich Hirth since 1900 , died of leukemia in 1907.

In 1894 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1896 Traube was an extraordinary member, since 1899 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , since 1902 a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . From 1897 to 1904 he was a member of the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), where he was in charge of the Auctores Antiquissimi and Antiquitates departments.

Traube mainly dealt with the Latin literature of the Middle Ages, palaeography and the history of texts and traditions of Latin authors. Together with Wilhelm Meyer , who worked in Göttingen , Traube is considered to be the founder of the Latin philology of the Middle Ages.

Traube's grave in the Jewish cemetery in Schönhauser Allee

He is buried in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee . Traube's estate included his important private library, which contained prints, manuscripts and photographs from manuscripts and was supported by friends with annual financial support during his lifetime. After his death, four codices and around 60 manuscript fragments were acquired from the Munich State Library; the rest of the holdings went to the MGH Central Management as a foundation and today forms the basis of the Monumenta Library.

Fonts

  • Carolingian seals. Ædelwulf, Alchuine, Angilbert, Rhythms . Weidmann, Berlin 1888.
  • O Roma nobilis. Philological studies from the Middle Ages . Munich 1891.
  • Scribe Lotharius by S. Amand . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 9 (1892), pp. 87-88 ( online ).
  • Text history of the Regula S. Benedicti . Munich 1898.
  • The history of the Tironic notes in Suetonius and Isidorus . Berlin 1901.
  • Review of my teaching . Munich 1901. Reprinted by Arbeo-Gesellschaft, Munich 1988.
  • Nomina Sacra. Attempt a history of Christian shortening . Beck, Munich 1907. Reprint Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1967.
  • Lectures and treatises . 3 volumes. 1909-1920. (Volume 2: Introduction to the Latin Philology of the Middle Ages ).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ludwig Traube (Philologist)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  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. 242.
personal data
SURNAME Traube, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, medievalist and paleographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1907
Place of death Munich