Samuel Löwenfeld

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Samuel Löwenfeld (also Samuel Loewenfeld ; born February 11, 1854 in Posen , † December 31, 1891 in Berlin ) was a German historian and diplomat . He is best known for his contributions to the editing of the Regesta Pontificum Romanorum by Philipp Jaffé in its second edition, which are cited as "JL" (Jaffé / Loewenfeld). He was also an employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

Life

Löwenfeld's parents were considered to be pious Jewish . His father Viktor Löwenfeld had a rabbi diploma , but ran a boarding school , his mother was Henriette Zadek. Samuel Löwenfeld's twin brother, Raphael Löwenfeld , became a Slavist , writer and theater founder ( Schillertheater Berlin). Samuel Löwenfeld's first marriage was divorced and his second marriage was in September 1891 with his niece Jetta Friedländer. A son from his first marriage became a farmer and emigrated to South America.

Samuel Löwenfeld attended the German grammar school in Breslau . He was considered the better student compared to his twin brother. He studied history in Berlin and worked for Harry Bresslau and Theodor Mommsen . At the Georg-August University Göttingen , he was in 1877 with a dissertation on Leo of Vercelli doctorate . In 1880 he translated the study information about the papal archive of the Norwegian historian Peter Andreas Munch from Danish into German. In the following year he published a short text "against the defamation of the Jews" (The truth about the Jews' participation in crime. Based on official statistics.) Löwenfeld later completed his habilitation in Berlin and became a private lecturer in history at the University of Berlin .

His (scientific) friends included Paul Ewald , Wilhelm Ludwig Hertz , Moritz Lazarus and Markus Maurer .

Fonts (selection)

  • Leo von Vercelli , Dissertation Göttingen 1877.
  • Documenta quaedam historiam monasterii S. Anastasii ad Aquas Salvias illustrantia , Rome 1880.
  • Peter Andreas Munch: Information about the papal archive , translated from Danish by Samuel Löwenfeld, Berlin 1880.
  • The truth about the Jews' participation in the crime. Based on official statistics , Berlin 1881. ( digitized version )
  • Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ab condita ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum 1198 , vol. 1: A S. Petro ad a. MCXLIII , Leipzig 1885 (published together with Philipp Jaffé, Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner and Paul Ewald). ( Digitized version )
  • Epistolae pontificum Romanorum ineditae , Leipzig 1885 (reprint Graz 1959). ( Digitized version )
  • Gesta abbatum Fontanellensium (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum, vol. 28), Hanover 1886 (reprint 1980). ( Digitized version )
  • Regesta Pontificum Romanorum from condita ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum 1198 , Vol. 2: From a. MCXLIII ad a. MCXCVIII , Leipzig 1888 (published together with Philipp Jaffé, Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner and Paul Ewald). ( Digitized version )

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Samuel Löwenfeld  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. a b Horst Fuhrmann : “Everything was just human”. Scholarly life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Shown using the example of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and its staff , Munich 1996 ( ISBN 3-406-40280-1 ), p. 86f.