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.
personal data
SURNAME Löwenfeld, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loewenfeld, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1891
Place of death Berlin