Persons Index

• Albert Behaim

  a curial advocate under Popes Innocent III (1198–1216) and Honorius III. (1216–1227); his epistolary and memorial book are edited in the MGH series "Briefe des späteren Mittelalters": Das Brief- und Memorialbuch des Albert Behaim, hg. von Thomas Frenz und Peter Herde, 2000. 

• Ansbert and Tageno

  Tageno: dean of the church of Passau, recorded as notary and chaplain of the bishop on 29 November 1184; he participated in the third crusade and wrote a travel report; Ansbert (name uncertain) lived at the end of the 12^th century and wrote an account of the crusade of Emperor Frederick I (Historia de expeditione Friederici), partly drawing on Tageno's crusade report. The chronicle of Vincent of Prague, Gerlach of Mühlhausen and "Ansbert" is an MGH edition project.

• Aronius, Julius

  * 17 February 1861 in Rastenburg; † 29 July 1893 in Berlin; historian and charter scholar; worked for the Historische Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland (historical commission for the history of the Jews in Germany) on the regesta from the time of the Frankish kings to 1273

• Baethgen, Friedrich

  * 30 July 1890 in Greifswald; † 18 June 1972 in Munich; historian and mediaevist; professor for medieval history at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Königsberg an Munich; worked for the MGH section Scriptores 1920-1923; regular member of the MGH central board of directors and head of the sections Scriptores and Epistolae since 1946, MGH presiden 1948-1959; president of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1956-1964

  edited for the MGH: the chronicle of Johann of Winterthur (Chronica Iohannis Vitodurani) (MGH SS rer. Germ. N. S. 3), 1924.

• Bärwald, Hermann

  * 7 November 1828 in Nakel an der Netze; † 19 February 1907 in Frankfurt a. M.; pedagogue and author; tutor of the children of the Prussian consul Moritz Ritter von Goldschmidt in Vienna, scholar of medieval history (awarded the Austrian gold medal for art and science); member of the teachers' council of religious schools of the Jewish community in Berlin in 1859, worked on the reform of the Jewish schooling system

• Beda Venerabilis

  * ca. 672 near Wearmouth in Northumbria; † 26 May 735 in the monastery of Jarrow; Anglosaxon Benedictine monk, theologian and historiographer; venerated as a saint and doctor of the Church

• Bellenghi, Aurelio

  since 1877 librarian at the Biblioteca Comunale in Faenza

• Benedictus Levita

  no known biographical record; writing under this name around the middle of the 9^th century in the milieu of the Pseudoisidorian forgeries, the author produced a collection of capitularies comprising three books with over 1700 forged legal texts; the edition of the false capitularies of Benedictus Levita is a long-standing MGH project

  
  

• Bernays, Jacob

  * 11 September 1824 in Hamburg, † 26 May 1881 in Bonn; Jew; professor of classical philology at the seminary for Jewish theology of the Fraenckel Stiftung in Breslau/Wrocław; since 1866 extraordinarius professor at the university of Bonn

• Bethmann, Ludwig Konrad

  * 23 June 1812 in Helmstedt, † 5 December 1867 in Wolfenbüttel; scholarly assistant at the MGH under Georg Heinrich Pertz 1837-1854, in whose service he undertook many trips to archives but seldom followed Pertz's wishes; director of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel 1854-1867; edited the Chronicon Novaliciense (MGH SS rer. Germ. 21), 1846

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116155558

• Beyerle, Franz Sales Nikolaus

  * 30 January1885 in Constance; † 22.10.1977 in Öhningen-Wangen; jurist and legal historian; entered the NS Juristenbund (Nationalsocialist jurist association) in 1933; professor at the universities of Basel (since 1918), Greifswald (since 1929), Frankfurt a. M. (since 1930), Leipzig (since 1934), and Freiburg i. Br. (since 1938), director of the Rechtsgeschichtliches Institut in Freiburg

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1080247572

• Bindewald, Helene

  * 30 January 1898 in Erkner near Berlin; † 17 March 1986 Berlin; historian and German philologist; worked for the MGH section Leges 1938-1942 and 1954-1964 in the MGH branch in Berlin), entrusted with editing the Sachsenspiegel-gloss (cf. terms and translations)

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1080247572

• Bluhme, Friedrich

  * 29 June 1797 in Hamburg, † 5 November 1874 in Bonn; jurist and legal historian; non-resident scholarly assistant at the MGH under Georg Heinrich Pertz; professor at the universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Göttingen, and Bonn

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118852086

• Böhmer, Johann Friedrich

  * 22 April 1795 in Frankfurt am Main, † 22 October 1863 ibid.; wealthy family background; historian and archivist; secretary and extraordinary honorary member of the central board of directors at the MGH 1823-1863; led the MGH together with Georg Heinrich Pertz from 1824 on; founded the Regesta Imperii; administrator of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, head archivist and librarian of the city of Frankfurt; member of the Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, and the Königlich-Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118660748

• Boll, Franz

  * 1 July 1867 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber; † 3 July 1924 in Heidelberg; classical philologist, historian of astrology and astronomy, librarian; member of the Academies of Sciences and Humanities in Heidelberg, Munich, Göttingen, und Bologna; doctor h.c. of the university of Padua

• Bollig, Johann

  * 23 August 1821 in Kelz; † 9 March 1895 in Rome; Jesuit, scholar of oriental studies; curator and since 1880 prefect of the Vatican library

• Bonifatius/St. Boniface

  * ca. 672 in Wessex; † 5 June 754/5 (killed) near Dokkum in Friesland; a well-known Christian missionary mostly active in the non-Christian Germanic lands; church reformer in the Frankish empire; bishop of Mainz and Utrecht, founded numerous monasteries (including Fulda); referred to as the "Apostle of the Germans"

  MGH edition of the letters of St. Boniface by Michael Tangl as vol. 1 of  the series MGH Epistolae selectae: Die Briefe des heiligen Bonifatius und Lullus (S. Bonifatii et Lulli epistolae), 1916.

• Bonizo von Sutri

  * ca. 1045; † 15 July 1094?; Bishop of Sutri (Lazio); supporter of Pope Gregory VII; papal legate 1078; emprisoned in 1082 by King Henry IV; Bishop of Piacenza 1086-1089; blinded, mutilated and deposed from office

• Borsieri, Giovanni Battista

  * 18 February 1725 in Civezzano; † 21 December 1785 in Milan; town doctor of Faenza; professor of medicine at the universities of Padua and Pavia; personal physician to the house Habsburg-Este in Milan; author of numerous medical books and editor of the Tolosanus Chronicle published in 1876

• Brackmann, Albert

  * 24 June 1871 in Hannover, † 17 March 1952 in Berlin; historian, professor at the universities of Marburg, Königsberg, Berlin; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1924-1935 and corresponding member of the board 1948-1952; general director of the Prussian state archives and first director of the secret state archive 1929-1936; member of the Prussian Akademie der Wissenschaften; member of the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118659715

• Brandi, Karl Maria Prosper Laurenz

  * 20 May 1868 in Meppen; † 9 March 1946 in Göttingen; historian, professor for medieval and modern history at the university of Göttingen 1902-1936; resumed teaching in Göttingen after 1945; co-editor of the MGH journal "Deutschen Archivs für Erforschung des Mittelalters"

• Bresslau-Hoff, Caroline Dorothea Luise

  * 29 May 1882 in Strasbourg; † 1966 in São Paulo (Brazil); writer and poet; married Harry Bresslau's son Ernst Bresslau in 1908; emigrated with her family to Brazil 1934; sent letters from Harry Bresslau's estate from São Paulo (Brazil) to her sister-in-law Helene Schweitzer-Bresslau in Germany in 1951

• Bresslau-Isay, Caroline

  * 26 August 1853 in Schweich; † 30 September 1941 in Heidelberg; wife of Harry Bresslau; avoided being deported to the internship camp Gurs with the other Heidelberg Jews in October 1940

• Bresslau, Abraham Heinrich

  1825 – 1886; lived 1866-1886 in New York; worked first as a bank employee, since 1845 as a salesman in Danneberg; proprietor of a brick factory in Uelzen since 1857,  after 1866 editor for the New York state newspaper

• Bresslau, Clara

  Harry Bresslau's younger sister

• Bresslau, Ernst Ludwig

  * 10 July 1877 in Berlin, † 09 May 1935 in São Paulo; first son of Harry Bresslau; zoologist and professor at the university of Cologne; emigrated with his family to Brazil in 1934 and took up teaching at the newly founded university of São Paulo

• Bresslau, Hermann

  1883 – 1913, second son of Harry Bresslau

• Bresslau, Marianne (geb. Heinemann)

  † 1870; daughter of the court factor Levi Heinemann, mother of Harry Bresslau

• Brigante, Francesco

  * 10 July 1873 in Deruta; † 11 August 1961; notary, librarian at the Biblioteca Augusta in Perugia since 1901

• Brühl, Fanny (née Jaffé)

  1840 – 1923; stepsister of Philipp Jaffé

• Büttner, Heinrich

  * 18 November 1908 in Mainz, † 15 Oktober 1970 in Bad Godesberg; historian, member of the SA 1933-1935, NSDAP member 1937-1945; executive director and editor in the MGH sections Scriptores and Diplomata; after WWII university professor in Mainz, Marburg, and Cologne

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd119027178

• Caesarius of Heisterbach

  * ca. 1180 in or near Cologne; † 1240 in Heisterbach; erudite Cistercian monk and novice master in the Cistercian monastery Heisterbach; wrote a collection of miracle reports or exempla, an important source for medieval cultural history; Wilhelm Levison contributed largely to the edition of his work but was not mentioned in the publication: Hilka, Alfons (Hg.), Die Wundergeschichten des Caesarius von Heisterbach (Publikationen der Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde 43, Band 1 und 3), Bonn 1933-37

• Cantinelli, Petrus

  probably a notary in Faenza, author of a chronicle for the years 1228 to 1306; edition: Petri Cantinelli Chronicon (aa. 1228-1306), hg. von Francesco Torraca (Rerum italicarum scriptores² 28, 2), Città di Castello 1902

• Caspar, Erich

  * 14 November 1879 in Potsdam; † 22 January 1935 in Berlin (suicide); Jewish family background; Evangelical confession; historian and charter scholar; worked for the MGH section Epistolae 1909-1920; professor for medieval history at the university of Königsberg 1920-1929; rector of the university of Königsberg 1928-1929; professor at the university of Berlin since 1930

  edited for the MGH: Epistolae Karolini aevi (V) (MGH Epp. 7), 1912-1928; das Register Gregors VII. Teil 1: Buch I-IV (MGH Epp. sel. 2), 1920; das Register Gregors VII. Teil 2: Buch V-IX (MGH Epp. sel. 2), 1923.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116467770

• Chmel, Joseph

  * 18 March 1798 in Olmütz; † 28 November 1858 in Vienna; Augustinian canon, historian, vice-director of the Viennese state archive, member of the Viennese, Prussian, Bavarian and Göttingen Academies of Sciences

• Chroust, Anton

  * 10 March 1864 in Graz, † 22 May 1945 in Theilheim; historian, professor at the university of Würzburg; rector of the university 1924-1925

  edited for the MGH: Quellen zur Geschichte des Kreuzzuges Kaiser Friedrichs I. (MGH SS rer. Germ. N. S. 5), 1928.

   http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116510897

• Cipolla, Carlo

  * 26 September 1854; † 23 November 1916: historian and palaeographer; professor at the universities of Turin and Florenz; corresponding member of the Bavarian Akademie der Wissenschaften since 1892

• Cohn, Ludwig Adolf

   * 22 May 1834 in Breslau/Wrocław; † 13 January 1871 in Göttingen; Jewish family background; converted to Evangelical Christianity in 1857 and became an untenured lecturer in history at the university of Göttingen

• Colgrave, Bertram

  * 1889 in Derry/Irland, † 13 January 1968 in Cambridge/England; english historian, professor in Durham; colleague and friend of Wilhelm Levison, an expert for the Vitae of early medieval Anglosaxon saints in England

• Contzen, Martin Theodor

  * 29 November 1807 in Münster/Westfalen, † 4 January 1881 in Würzburg; historian, professor at the university of Würzburg

• Dehio, Ludwig

  * 25 August 1888 in Königsberg/Kaliningrad; † 24 November 1963 in Marburg; son of the art historian Georg Dehio; historian; suffered war injuries in WWI and started work as an archivist after the war; rose to office of Staatsarchivrat at the Prussian Geheimes Staatsarchiv; in danger of persecution after 1933 on account of his Jewish backgrounds (grandson of the Jewish ancient philologist Ludwig Friedlände); director of the Staatsarchiv Marburg in 1946, honorary professor at the university of Marburg, founder of the Marburg Archivschule (archive school)

• Del Vecchio, Alberto

  * 1 July 1849; † 11 February 1922; archaeologist, jurist and legal historian; editor of the journal Archivio storico italiano since 1902

• Dohrn, Reinhard

  * 13 March 1880 in Naples; † 14 December 1962 in Rome, director of the Zoological Station in Naples (1909-1954), foster-son of Ludwig Traube

• Döllinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz

  * 28 February 1799 in Bamberg; † 10 January 1890 in Munich; Church historian, one of the founding fathers of the Old Catholic Church in Germany; professor and later rector at the university of Munich, president of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenenschaften; in the Berlin anti-Semitism Debate, he positioned himself against anti-Semitism, arguing that the German Jews were rooted in Western culture
  
  

• Dove, Alfred

  * 4 April 1844 in Berlin; † 19 January 1916 in Freiburg i. Br.; historian, professor of history in Breslau/Wrocław; regular member of the  Königlich-Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich 1893-1897; member of the central board of directors of the MGH 1895-1897 (as a delegate of the Munich Academy), extraordinary member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1900-1916 

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd119555883

• Dressel, Albert

  * 9 July 1808 in Neuhaldensleben, † 8 November 1875 in Rome; archaeologist and philologist

• Droysen, Johann Gustav

  * 6 July 1808 in Treptow a. d. Rega; † 19 June 1884 in Berlin; historian, author of historical theory, politician; professor at the university of Kiel 1840, in Jena 1851, and in Berlin since 1859; professor of Harry Bresslau

• Dümmler, Ernst

  * 2 January 1830 in Berlin; † 11 September 1902 in Friedrichroda; historian, professor for history and the historische Hilfswissenschaften (cf. terms and translations) in Halle; member of the MGH central board of directors 1875-1902, head of the MGH sections Antiquitates, Epistolae and Libelli de Lite 1875-1902; since 1888 chair of the MGH central board of directors

  edited for the MGH: Libelli de lite imperatorum et pontificum; mit Lothar von Heinemann, Friedrich Thaner u.a. (MGH Ldl 1), 1891; Libelli de lite imperatorum et pontificum; mit Friedrich Thaner, Ernst Sackur (MGH Ldl 2), 1892; Libelli de lite imperatorum et pontificum; mit Ernst Sackur u.a. (MGH Ldl 3), 1897; Epistolae Merowingici et Karolini aevi (I) (MGH Epp. 3),1892; Epistolae Karolini aevi (II) (MGH Epp. 4), 1895; Epistolae Karolini aevi (III), (MGH Epp. 5), 1898-1899.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116238909

• Ebert, Georg Karl Wilhelm Adolf

  * 1 June 1820 in Kassel; † 1 July 1890 in Leipzig; scholar of Romance literature and the history of literature; proressor ordinarius for Romance philology in Leipzig 1862; co-founder of the journal "Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur" (printed 1859-1871)

• Eckhardt, Karl August

  * 5 March 1901 in Witzenhausen, † 29 January 1979 ibid.; jurist, historian, professor at the universities of Kiel, Berlin, and Bonn; member of the NSDAP 1932-1945, member of the SS 1933-1945; corresponding member of the MGH central board of directors 1960-1979

  editions for the MGH: Pactus legis Salicae (MGH LL nat. Germ. 4,1), 1962; Lex Salica (MGH LL nat. Germ. 4,2), 1969; Leges Alamannorum (MGH LL nat. Germ. 5,1), 2^nd edition 1966; Sachsenspiegel. Teil 1 Landrecht und Teil 2 Lehnrecht (MGH Fontes iuris N. S. 1), 1955-1956; Auctor vetus de beneficiis. Teil 1: Lateinische Texte (MGH Fontes iuris N. S. 2), 1964.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118681575
  
  

• Eichhorn, Johann Albrecht Friedrich

  * 2 March 1779 in Wertheim;  † 16 January 1856 in Berlin; Prussian statesman; minister of education and cultural affairs 1840-1848

• Ekkehard

  either Ekkehard IV, a monk of the monastery St Gall (ca. 980-1060), or Ekkehard of Aura, a monk in Tegernsee and Michelsberg/Bamberg († after 1125)

  Ekkehard IV wrote a history of the monastery St. Gall (Casus sancti Galli); edited and translated by Hans F. Haefele (†) and Ernst Tremp assisted by Franziska Schnoor (MGH Scriptores rer. Germ. in usum scholarum separatim editi 82), Wiesbaden 2020 

  Ekkehard of Aura wrote the continuation of the Michelsberg chronicle; for the current state of research on Ekkehard of Aura see: Thomas J. H. Mc Carthy, The continuations of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle (MGH Schriften 74), Wiesbaden 2018
   

• Engel, Wilhelm

  * 19 March1905 in Meiningen; † 23 April 1964 in Würzburg; historian, commissary president of the Reichsinstituts für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde (MGH) 1936-1937, member of the NSDAP 1933-1945; professor at the universities of Berlin (1936-1937) and Würzburg (1937-1945)

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116488093

• Erdmann, Carl

  * 17 November 1898 in Dorpat; † 7 May 1945 near Zagreb; historian, worked for the MGH section Epistolae since 1934 and since 1938 for the MGH library; published his habilitation thesis: "Die Entstehung des Kreuzzugsgedankens" (published under the English title: The origin of the idea of Crusade) in 1935, a classical treatment of the subject that made him one of the most important German medieval scholars of the 20^th century; conscripted in the German Wehrmacht 1943 and died in a field hospital near Zagreb, probably of typhus

  edited for the MGH: Briefsammlungen der Zeit Heinrichs IV. (MGH Epp. Die Briefe der Deutschen Kaiserzeit 5), 1950; Die Briefe Heinrichs IV. (Dt. MA 1), 1937; other MGH publications: Studien zur Briefliteratur Deutschlands im elften Jahrhundert (Schriften der MGH 1), 1938; Kaisertum und Herzogsgewalt im Zeitalter Friedrichs I. Studien zur politischen und Verfassungsgeschichte des hohen Mittelalters (Schriften der MGH 9), 1944.
  
  

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118682253

• Ertl, Nelly

  * 15 June 1910 in Bremen; † 1991; worked for the MGH section Epistolae 1935-1942, assisted Ernst Perels and officially took charge of the edition: Die Briefe des Hinkmar von Reims, Teil 2 after his forced resignation in 1937

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd125306199

• Ferniani, Annibale IV.

  * 2 December 1824; † 23 October 1893; last proprietor of the faience factory Fabbrica Ferniani; after his death, the family closed the business

• Ferniani, Maria (née Ghiselli)

  † 1885; second wife of Count Annibale IV Ferniani

• Ferniani, Ottaviano

  * 1842; one of the last proprietors of the faience factory Fabbrica Ferniani

• Finsterwalder, Wilhelm

  * 26 April 1888, † 9 August 1962; MGH staff member in the section Leges and library assistant 1922-1926

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd12808104X

• Flodoard of Reims

  893/94-966; cathedran canon and archivary in Reims; author of annals, a history of the church of Reims, and a collection of poems about saints

• Föringer, Heinrich Konrad

  * 14 August 1802 in Munich; † 9 February 1880 ibid.; librarian and archivist; member of the Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften since 1846

• Förster, Heinrich

  1940-1944 as a retired government inspector entrusted with the accounting and book-keeping for the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome; worked 1945-1947 as administration official (retired regular inspector) in the MGH office in Pommersfelden

• Frick, Wilhelm

  * 12 March 1877 in Alsenz, North-Palatinate; † 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg; jurist promovierter Jurist, 1925 Eintritt in NSDAP (Mitgliedsnummer 10), 1933 Reichsminister des Innern

  Lebenslauf: https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/wilhelm-frick
  
  Frick war eine der 24 im Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof angeklagten Personen. Er wurde am 1. Oktober 1946 in drei von vier Anklagepunkten schuldig gesprochen, zum Tod durch den Strang verurteilt und am 16. Oktober 1946 hingerichtet.

• Frederick I. Barbarossa

  1152 – 1190 German king, since 1155 Emperor

• Fuhrmann, Horst

  * 22 June 1926 in Kreuzburg (Upper Silesia); † 9 September 2011 in Herrsching am Ammersee; historian, professor at the universities of Tübingen and Regensburg, MGH editor in the section Scriptores 1954-1963; elected regular member of the MGH central board of directors 1965-2011; president of the MGH 1971-1994; chair of the Historisches Kolleg 1984-1997; president of the Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1992-1997

  edited for the MGH: Constitutum Constantini (Konstantinische Schenkung) (MGH Fontes iuris 10), 1968; other MGH publications: Einfluß und Verbreitung der pseudoisidorischen Fälschungen. Von ihrem Auftauchen bis in die neuere Zeit. Teil 1-3 (Schriften der MGH 24), 1972-1974; Papst Gregor VII. und das Zeitalter der Reform. Annäherungen an eine europäische Wende - ausgewählte Aufsätze. Ed. Martina Hartmann (Schriften der MGH 72), 2016.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118997904

• Geiger, Ludwig

  * 5 June 1848 in BreslauWrocław; † 9 February 1919 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; historian of literature and culture, advocate of Reform-Judaism; professor in Berlin, editor and founder of the Goethe Jahrbuch 1880; founder of the "Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland" (Journal for the history of the Jews in Germany = ZGJD); editor of the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums" (general newspaper of Judaism) since 1908

• Gersdorf, Ernst Gotthelf

  * 2 November 1804 in Tautendorf; † 5 January 1874 in Leipzig, librarian and historian

• Giesebrecht, Wilhelm (since 1865 with the nobiliary particle "von")

  5 March 1814 in Berlin; † 18 December 1889 in Munich; historian; regular member of the Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1861-1889; professor of history at the university of Munich and secretary of the Historische Kommission of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften since 1862; member of the MGH central board of directors as a delegate of the Munich academy 1875-1889; author of „Geschichte der deutschen Kaiserzeit“; received the Verdienstorden der Bayerischen Krone (order of merit of the Bavarian crown) 1865

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118717367

• Globke, Hans

  * 10 September 1898 in Düsseldorf; † 13 February 1973 in Bonn; jurist, co-author and commentator of the Nuremberg Laws (cf. terms and translations)

  On Hans Globke's role in the NS dictatorship, see (German): https://fragdenstaat.de/blog/2021/01/22/globke-strafanzeige-bundeskanzleramt-bundesarchivgesetz/

• Goldschmidt, Adolph

  * 15 Januay 1863 in Hamburg; † 5 January 1944 in Basel; Jewish, art historian, professor for art history at the universities of Berlin and Halle; member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin from 1914 until his exclusion in 1938; in 1927 and 1930 one of the first German professors to teach as a Visiting Professor at the university of Harvard; awarded a honorary doctor title by the university of Princeton in 1931 and in 1936 by the university of Harvard; emigrated to Switzerland in 1939

• Golther, Wolfgang

  * 25 May 1863 in Stuttgart; † 14 December 1945 in Rostock; German philologist, scholar of literature and Wagner studies; regular professor for German philology at the university of Rostock 1895; director of the university library Rostock since 1907; published studies on mythology, legends and literary motifs (1895 "Handbuch der germanischen Mythologie")

• Gosche, Richard

  * 4 June 1824 in Neuendorf near Crossen; † 29 October 1889 in Halle (Saale), studied oriental, classical and modern philology, professor at the university of Halle

• Götz, Walter

  * 11 November 1867 in Leipzig; † 30 October 1958 in Gräfelfing near Munich; historian; regular professor in Tübingen 1905-1913; regular professor at the university of Strasbourg as the successor to Harry Bresslau 1913-1915; professor for cultural and universal history at the university of Leipzig 1915-1933; president of the Historische Kommission at the Bavarian Akademie der Wissenschaften 1946-1951; member of the MGH central board of directors as delegate of the Leipzig academy 1946-1949; member of the MGH central board of directors as delegate of the Munich academy 1950-1958; honorary professor at the university of Munich 1952-1958

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118717944

• Gregory of Tours

  * 30 November 538 near Clermont-Ferrand; † presumably 17 November 594 in Tours; bishop of Tours, important historiographer and hagiographer of the Merovingian Age;
  Gregory of Tours' main work, the "Historia Francorum" or "Libri historiarum X" , (history of the Franks resp. ten books of histories) is written in the tradition of Late Antiquity universal historiography and is an important source for the history of the Early Middle Ages

  
  

• Grotefend, Karl Ludwig

  * 22 December 1807 in Frankfurt am Main; † 27 October 1874 in Hannover; historian, archivist; MGH corrector in Hannover and scholarly assistant under Georg Heinrich Pertz 1842-1874

• Grünhagen, Colmar

  * 2 April 1828 in Trebnitz, province Silesia (Poland); † 27 Juli 1911 in Breslau (Wrocław); historian, since 1862 director of the Silesian provincial archive (state archive) in Wrocław, professor at the university of Wrocław

• Güterbock, Ferdinand

  * 8 January 1872 in Berlin; † 15 April 1944 in Engelberg; Jewish family background; historian; freelance work for the MGH since ca. 1900 as editor of the MGH journal "Neues Archiv" and on the edition of the works of Italian historiographers during the rule of the Hohenstaufen; emigrated to Switzerland in 1937

  edited for the MGH: Das Geschichtswerk des Otto Morena und seiner Fortsetzer über die Taten Friedrichs I. in der Lombardei (MGH SS rer. Germ. N.S. 7), 1930

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116917199

• Gütschow, Else

  * 22 November 1865 in Lübeck-Niendorf; † 11 February 1908 in Strasbourg; historian, pioneer of German womens' studies; worked first as a teacher before studying history, national economics, art history, and English studies at the university of Zurich (Switzerland); took up guest studies at the university of Strasbourg 1900; first woman to attain a PhD at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in Strasbourg with her thesis „Innozenz III. und England. Eine Darstellung seiner Beziehungen zu Staat und Kirche" under Harry Bresslau

• Haller, Johannes

  * 16 October 1865 in Käina, governmental district of Estonia, Russian Empire; † 24 December 1947 in Tübingen; historian, professor at the universities of Marburg, Gießen, and Tübingen; specialised in medieval papal and church history; rejected the Weimar Republic and had an ambivalent position towards the NS regime

• Halm, Karl Felix

  * 5 April 1809 in Munich, † 5 Oktober 1882 ibid.; member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1844-1882; director of the Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Munich since 1856
  
  

• Hampe, Karl

  * 3 February 1869 in Bremen; † 14 February 1936 in Heidelberg; historian; worked for the MGH section Epistolae 1893-1897, extraordinarius professor for medieval and modern history at the university of Bonn 1901-1903; regular professor at the university of Heidelberg since 1903; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1917-1935; regular member of the Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften and corresponding member of the Prussian and Bavarian academies

  edited for the MGH: Briefe der Karolingerzeit - Epistolae Karolini aevi (III) (MGH Epp. 5), 1898-1899; Die Aktenstücke zum Frieden von S. Germano 1230 (MGH Epp. sel. 4), 1926

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118701282

• Harleß, Julius Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand

  * 27 March 1828 in Bonn; † 4 June 1902 in Düsseldorf, historian and archivist; director of the Prussian state archive in Düsseldorf 1866-1900
  
  

• Haseloff, Arthur Erich Georg

  * 28 November 1872 in Berlin; † 30 January 1955 in Kiel; art historian; professor at the university of Kiel; rector of the university of Kiel 1927/28; corresponding member of the Göttingen Akademie der Wissenschaften in 1932

• Haupt, Rudolph Friedrich Moriz

  * 27 July 1808 in Zittau; † 5 February 1874 in Berlin; classical philologist and German philologist, a founding father of the study of German philology; collated for the edition in MGH SS 3; professor at the university of Leipzig but removed from office after the March Revolution of 1848; appointed to the professorship for Roman literature at the university of Berlin as successor to Karl Lachmann in 1853

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd119034743

• Heinrich von Diessenhofen

  ca. 1302-1376, jurist, custos in Beromünster, at times active at the papal Curia in Avignon; wrote a chronicle continuing the church history of Tolomeus of Lucca; the edition of his chronicle is an MGH edition project

• Hermeking, Margarete

  secretary at the MGH 1938-1942

• Herrmann, Ernst

  * 25 March 1812 in Dorpat, Livonia; † 22 September 1884 in Marburg an der Lahn; historian, professor at the universities of Jena and Marburg

• Hertzberg, Gustav Friedrich

  * 19 January 1826 in Halle (Saale), † 16 November 1907 ibid.; ancient historian, professor at the university of Halle

• Hessel, Alfred

  * 7 June 1877 in Stettin; † 18 May 1939 in Göttingen; historian and librarian; of Jewish descent, converted to Protestantism 1895; worked for the MGH section Diplomata 1901-1908, professor extraordinarius for history at the university of Göttingen 1922-1935; forced into retirement due to the Nuremberg Laws 1935

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116771313

• Heymann, Ernst

  * 6 April 1870 in Berlin; † 2 May 1946 in Tübingen; jurist, member of the MGH central board of directors 1917-1935; head of the MGH section Leges; professor for legal studies at the universities of Königsberg, Marburg, and Berlin; corresponding member of the Prussian Akademie der Wissenschaften since 1925; president of the Juristische Gesellschaft Berlin 1931-1933

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116792221

• Himmler, Heinrich

  * 7 October 1900 in Munich; † 23 May 1945 in Lüneburg (suicide); a leading figure in the NS regime as Reichsführer SS, chief of police, Reichsinnenminister (minister of internal affairs) and commander of the reserve army; one of the main authors of the Holocaust

  for more on his curriculum vitae (German), see : https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/heinrich-himmler

• Hincmar of Reims

  * ca. 806; † 21 December 882 in Épernay; Archbishop of Reims, historiographer and canonist; advisor to Charles the Bald; author of numerous treatises and letters related to ecclesiastical politics

  the letters of Hincmar of Reims are edited in: MGH Epistolae Karolini aevi VI: Teil 1 hg. von Ernst Perels, 1939; Teil 2 hg. von Rudolf Schieffer mit Beiträgen von Ernst Perels und Nelly Ertl, 2018.

• Hinschius, Paul

  * 25 December 1835 in Berlin; † 13 December 1898; professor for Church law at the universities of Halle, Kiel, and Berlin; published a critical edition of the forgeries of Pseudoisidor in 1863

• Hirsch, Hans

  * 27 December 1878 in Zwettl (Lower Austria); † 20 August 1940 in Vienna; historian, professor at the universities of Vienna and Prague; editor in the MGH section Diplomata in Vienna 1903-1914; member of the MGH central board of directors as delegate of the Vienna Academy and director of the MGH section Diplomata in Vienna 1928-1935; applied for NSDAP membership after the Austrian „Anschluss" in 1939; supporting member of the SS; member of the Austrian, Prussian, and Bavarian Academies of the Sciences

  edited for the MGH: the charters of Lothar III and Empress Richenza: Lotharii III. Diplomata nec non Richenzae imperatricis Placita) (MGH DD regum et imperatorum Germaniae 8), 1927.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd119531305

• Hirsch, Paul

  * 10 March 1883 in Mannheim; † 17 June 1961 in Heidelberg; Jewish; worked for the MGH section Scriptores since 1914 

  edited for the MGH: Die Sachsengeschichte des Widukind von Korvei (Widukindi monarchi Corbeiensis Rerum gestarum Saxonicarum libri III). Anhang: Die Schrift über die Herkunft der Schwaben (MGH SS rer. Germ. 60, 1935

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1012273164

• Hirsch, Theodor

  * 17 December 1806 in Alt Schottland near Danzig/Gdansk; † 17 February 1881 in Greifswald; historian, gymnasium teacher, since 1865 professor at the university of Greifswald and director of the Königliche Universitätsbibliothek

• Hirth-Traube, Hildegard

  daughter of the sinologist Friedrich Hirth, married to Ludwig Traube since 1900

• Hirth, Friedrich

  * 16 April 1845 in Gräfentonna near Gotha; † 8 January 1927 in Munich; sinologist and historian; professor of sinology at the Columbia University in New York 1902-1917, father-in-law of Ludwig Traube

• Hofmann, Konrad

  * 14 November 1819 in monastery Banz; † 30 September 1890 in Waging am See, scholar of Romance and German language studies and medievalist, professor at the university of Munich

• Hofmeister, Adolf

  * 9 August 1883 in Rostock; † 7 April 1956 in Greifswald; historian; worked for the MGH section Scriptores 1905-1921; professor for history at the university of Berlin 1913-1921; regular professor for medieval and modern history at the university of Greifswald 1921-1952; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1927-1935; corresponding member of the MGH central board of directors 1948-1956

  edited for the MGH: Supplementa tomorum I-XV (MGH SS 30, Teil 2), 1926-1934; die Chronik des Mathias von Neuenburg (Chronica Mathiae de Nuwenburg) (MGH SS rer. Germ. N. S. 4), 1924-1940; Ottonis episcopi Frisigensis Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus (MGH SS rer. Germ. 45), 1912; Ottonis de Sancto Blasio Chronica. Anhang: Ex Chronica universali Turicensi excerpta (MGH SS rer. Germ. 47), 1912

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd11695230X

• Holder-Egger, Oswald

  * 19 August 1851 in Bischofswerder (West Prussia); † 1 November 1911 in Berlin; philologist and palaeographer; worked for the MGH since 1875; member of the MGH central board of directors since 1888; elected but not officially confirmed as chair of the MGH central board of directors 1902-1905; head of the MGH sections Scriptores in folio and Epistolae

  edited for the MGH: Supplementa tomorum XVI-XXV (MGH SS 30, Teil 1), 1896; Annales et chronica Italica aevi Suevici (MGH SS 31), 1903; Cronica fratris Salimbene de Adam ordinis Minorum (MGH SS 32), 1905-1913; Alberti de Bezanis abbatis S. Laurentii Cremonensis Cronica pontifium et imperatorum (MGH SS rer. Germ. 3), 1908; Die Chronik des Propstes Burchard von Ursberg (Burchardi praepositi Urspergensis Chronicon) (MGH SS rer. Germ. 16), 1916; Carmen de bello Saxonico. Anhang: Conquestio Heinrici IV. imperatoris (MGH SS rer. Germ. 17), 1889.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116960515

• Holtzmann, Robert

  * 17 October 1873 in Heidelberg; † 27 June 1946 in Halle a. d. Saale; worked for the MGH 1898-1901; professor for medieval history at the universities of Giesen, Breslau, Halle, and Berlin  1913-1939

  edited for the MGH: Die Chronik des Bischofs Thietmar von Merseburg und ihre Korveier Überarbeitung (Thietmari Merseburgensis spiscopi Chronicon) (MGH SS. rer. Germ. N. S. 9), 1935; Die Urkunden Heinrichs II. und Arduins (Heinrici II. et Arduini Diplomata) (DD regum et imperatorum Germaniae 3), 1900-1903.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118553208

• Holtzmann, Walther

  * 31 December 1891 in Ebersbach a. d. Fils; † 25 November 1963 in Bonn; charter scholar and historian; member of the SA reserve 1934; appointed to the professorship for medieval history and the historische Hilfswissenschaften (cf. texts and translations) in 1936 after Wilhelm Levison was forced to retire; elected member of the MGH central board of directors since 1946; corresponding member of the Göttingen Akademie der Wissenschaften since 1946; worked for the MGH section Scriptores 1948-1950, director of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome 1953-1961

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118706756

• Hopf, Karl

  * 19 February 1832 in Hamm (Westfalia), † 23 August 1873 in Wiesbaden; historian and scholar of Byzantine studies, professor at the universities of Greifswald and Königsberg

• Hoppe, Willy

  * 13 February 1884 in Berlin;  † 26 September 1960 in Berlin; historian, librarian of the Traube library since 1912; extraordinarius professor for medieval and modern history in Berlin 1929-1935; regular professor of history at the university of Berlin 1935-1945, member of the NSDAP 1931-1945, rector of the university of Berlin 1937-1942

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd124376886

• Hümer, Johann

  * 18 April 1849 in Raab/Austria; † 20 September 1915 in Reichenau an der Rax/Austria; classical philologist; civil servant; gymnasium director, scholary study in the fields of Roman poetry and medieval latin literature

• Hüttebräuker, Lotte

  * 10 January 1902 in Hannover, † 29 April 1945 in Berlin (suicide); MGH staff member in the series Constitutiones, the library, and the editorial board of the Neues Archiv 1925-1935

• Huysken, Albert

  * 30 July 1879 in Mönchengladbach; † 26 October 1956 in Aachen; historian, archivist, and librarian; professor extraordinarius for German and Rhinish history at the historical institute of the Technische Hochschule Aachen 1925; director of the municipal library Aachen 1931; chair of the Aachener Geschichtsverein and chief editor of the society journal 1934

• Jaffé, Elias Marcus

  1794 – 29 December 1866; father of Philipp Jaffé; a merchant in Posen/Poznań (Poland); the scion of an important Jewish family in Posen with a famous ancestor in the sixteenth-century Polish-Jewish scholar Rabbi Mordechai Jaffé

• Jaffé, Ernestine (née Thorner)

  mother of Philipp Jaffé; possibly Ernestine, née Thorner, see: Schwartz, p. 8, note 33.

• Jaffé, Pauline (née Berlack)

  1809 – 1900; stepmother of Philipp Jaffé

• Juncker, Josef

  * 9 September 1889 in Pitesti (Romania); † 18 October 1938 in Bonn; of Jewish family background, converted to Greek-Othodox Christianity; historian of law and church history; worked for the MGH on the edition of Benedictus Levita since 1925; extraordinarius professor for Roman law at the university of Bonn 1932; extraordinarius professor for Roman law at the university of Greifswald 1932-1934; regular professor for Roman, civil and civilian process law at the university of Greifswald 1934-1936, forced to retire due to the Nuremberg Laws in 1935; dismissed from the MGH edition project by president Ernst Edmund Stengel in 1938; his death was probably suicide, but officially diagnosed as a heart attack

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1055341471

• Kampschulte, Franz Wilhelm

  * 12 November 1831 in Wickede (Ruhr); † 3 December 1872 in Bonn; historian, extraordinarius professor at the university of Bonn

• Kausler, Heinrich Edurard (ab 1846 von)

  * 20 August 1801 in Winnenden, † 27 August 1873 in Stuttgart;  historian, scholar of German and Romance philology; held a position at the royal state archive in Stuttgart from 1826, vice-director of the archive since 1857

• Kehr, Paul Fridolin

  * 28 December 1860 in Waltershausen/Saxony; † 9 November 1944 in Wässerndorf; historian and charter scholar; professor at the universities of Marburg and Göttingen; general director of the Prussian Staatsarchiv 1915-1929; director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Deutsche Geschichte since 1917, chair of the MGH central board of directors 1919-1936; head od the MGH sections Diplomata and Epistolae 1919-1935

  edited for the MGH: Die Urkunden Ludwigs des Deutschen, Karlmanns und Ludwigs des Jüngeren (Ludowici Germanici, Karlomanni, Ludowici Iunioris Diplomata) (MGH DD regum Germaniae ex stirpe Karolinorum 1), 1932-1934; Die Urkunden Karls III. (Karoli III. Diplomata) (MGH DD regum Germaniae ex stirpe Karolinorum 2), 1936-1937; Die Urkunden Arnolfs (Arnolfi Diplomata) (MGH DD regum Germaniae ex stirpe Karolinorum 3), 1940; Die Urkunden Heinrichs III. (Heinrici III. Diplomata) (MGH DD regum et imperatorum Germaniae 5), 1926-1931.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118721461

• Keil, Heinrich

  * 25 May 1822 in Gressow near Wismar; † 27 August 1894 in Friedrichroda; classical philologist, teacher

• Keinz, Friedrich

  * 09 March 1833, † 29 October 1901; philologist, member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, librarian at the Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Munich

• Klempin, Robert

  * 19 November 1816 in Swinemünde; † 29 April 1874 in Stettin; historian, since 1857 director of the Pomeranian provincial archive in Stettin

• Köpke, Rudolf

  * 23 August 1813 in Königsberg/Kaliningrad, † 10 June 1870 in Berlin; historian, professor at the university of Berlin; scholarly assistant under Georg Heinrich Pertz 1842-1850, politically active in the "March Revolution 1848"; MGH editor of Herbordi Dialogus de vita Ottonis episcopi Babenbergensis (MGH SS rer. Germ. 33), 1868

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd101740743

• Koser, Reinhold

  * 7 February 1852 in Schmarsow near Prenzlau; † 25 August 1914 in Berlin; modern historian; worked for the MGH since 1875, elected member of the MGH central board of directors since 1888; head of the MGH sections Scriptores in folio and Epistolae; director of the Prussian Staatsarchiv sinc 1896; chair of the MGH central board of directors since 1905

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116342684

• Krammer, Mario

  * 11 July 1880 in Berlin; † 15 February 1953 in Berlin; historian, worked for the MGH section Leges 1902-1924

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116379014

• Krusch, Bruno

  * 8 July 1857 in Görlitz; † 29 June 1940 in Hannover; historian and archivist; worked for the MGH section Scriptores 1879-1903; elected member of the MGH central board of directors and head of the series Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 1903-1935; director of the Staatsarchiv Hannover 1910-1921; corresponding member of the Prussian Akademie der Wissenschaften 1925-1940 

  edited for the MGH: Venanti Honori Clementiani Fortunati presbyteri Italici Opera pedestria (MGH Auct. ant. 4,2),1885; Gregorii Turnonensis Opera. Libri historiarum X (MGH SS rer. Merov. 1), 1937-1951; Gregorii Turonensis Opera. Miracula et opera minora (MGH SS rer. Merov. 1), 1885; Fredegarii et aliorum Chronica. Vitae sanctorum (MGH SS rer. Merov. 2), 1888; Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici et antiquiorum aliquot (I), (MGH SS rer. Merov. 3), 1896; Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (III) (MGH SS rer. Merov. 5), 1910.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116574275

• Krusch, Heinrich

  one of the six children of Bruno Krusch

• Kühn, Margarete

  * 30 May 1894 in Mittweida/Saxony; † 18 August 1986 in Berlin; historian; worked for the MGH section Constitutiones (Berlin branch) since 1941

  edited for the MGH: Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regum. Dokumente zur Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches und seiner Verfassung. 1349. Hg.: Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (MGH Const. 9), 1974-1983; Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regum. Dokumente zur Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches und seiner Verfassung. 1350-1353. Hg.: Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (MGH Const. 10), 1979-1991.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1055496998

• Külz, Wilhelm

  * 18 February 1875 in Borna; † 10 April 1948 in Berlin; became a member of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei in 1926; a left-liberal politician

• Laehr, Gerhard

  * 27 September 1899 in Berlin; † 18 June 1931 in Berchtesgaden; historian; worked for the MGH section Epistolae 1925-1929; second secretary of the Prussian Historisches Institut in Rome 1929-1931 

  edited for the MGH: Epistolae Karolini aevi V. (MGH Epp. 7), 1912-1928

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1079940251

• Lebègue, Henri

  * 27 February 1856 in Nogent-sur-Marne, † 19 Octorber 1938 in Paris; French palaeographer, professor at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris

• Lehmann, Paul

  * 13 July 1884 in Braunschweig; † 4 January 1964 in Munich; classical philologist; extraordinarius professor for medieval Latin philology in Munich 1917-1926; regular professor in Munich 1926-1953; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1953-1964

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116871466

• Leidinger, Georg

  * 30 December 1870 in Ansbach, † 9 March 1945 in Marquartstein; historian; director of the manuscript department at the Bavarian State Library 1903-1936, honorary professor of library studies at the university of Munich 1922-1936, member of the MGH central board of directors as a delegate of the Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1922-1935

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116878851

• Lepsius, Sabine (née Graef)

  * 15 January 1864 in Berlin; † 22 November 1942 in Bayreuth; portrait painter and salonnière, influenced by Impressionism; engaged to marry Ludwig Traube; married the painter Reinhold Lepsius; one of the 65 founding members of the Berlin Secession 1898

• Levison, Arthur

  * 29 July 1881 in Düsseldorf; † 13 May 1949 in London; brother of Wilhelm Levison; followed in his father's footsteps as merchant; worked for his mother's cousin, Louis Adler, in his London-based trading branch A. Oppenheimer & Co first in France, and then in London; became a partner of the company in 1932, married Marion Howitt in London in 1910 and became an English citizen

• Levison, Elsa Lilli (née Freundlich)

  * 30 January 1888 in Eichstetten; † 23 January 1966 in Durham/England; Jewish, completed her high-school graduation (Abitur) as an external student and studied philosophy, classical philology, history, and German literature in Bonn, where she attended Wilhelm Levison's courses, Berlin, and Heidelberg; attained her Ph.D. in Heidelberg with a thesis on „John Stuart Mills Kausaltheorie“; married Wilhelm Levison 1917, the marriage was childless

• Levison, Hermann

  * 22 February 1839 in Siegburg; † 27 December 1886 in Düsseldorf; Jewish, father of Wilhelm Levison; salesman; since 1868 owner of the haberdashery: "Weiß-, Strumpf-, und Kurzwarengeschäft en-gros Levison & Waldeck"; active in the "Verein zur Verbreitung und Förderung des Handwerks unter den Juden“ (association for the spread and promotion of skilled trades among the Jews)

• Levison, Josephine (née Goldschmidt)

  * 12 July 1845 in Simmern; † 5 November 1916 in Bonn; Jewish, mother of Wilhelm Levison

• Levold von Northof

  1279-ca. 1360, of Westphalian nobility, served Count Adolf von der Mark; author of a chronicle edited in vol. 6 of the MGH seriesvScriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova serie: Die Chronik der Grafen von der Mark von Levold von Northof (Levoldi de Northof Chronica comitum de Marka), ed. Fritz Zschaeck, 1929

• Levy, Ernst

  * 23 December 1881 in Berlin; † 14 September 1968 in Davis (California, USA); Jewish; jurist and legal historian; professor at the universities of Frankfurt a. M., Freiburg, and Heidelberg; forced to retire due to the Nuremberg Laws in 1935; co-editor of the Romanistic section of the Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte 1927-1934; professor at the university of Washington in Seattle 1937-1952; awarded the Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz 1956; corresponding member of the Göttingen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1960, corresponding member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1962

• Lindner, Ernst Friedrich Theodor

  * 29 May 1843 in Breslau/Wrocław; † 24 November 1919 in Halle (Saale); historian, worked for the Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie; professor in the universities of Münster and Halle, where he succeded to Ernst Dümmler

• Löffler, Hermann

  * 13 February 1908 in Ottweiler; † 20 October 1978 in Heidelberg; historian; joined the NSDAP in 1928; a member of the SA since 1932; appointed as head of his division in the SS "Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt" (central office for race and settlement) in 1937; in 1938 transferred to the SS research division "Deutsches Ahnenerbe" (cf. terms and translations) as head of the section "mittlere und neuere Geschichte" (middle-old and more recent history); sent to the SD head office in 1938 (the security department of the SS).

  classified as "Mitläufer" (follower) at the end of WWII and denazified; thereafter professor in Strasb
  Nach Kriegsende als Mitläufer entnazifiziert, professor in Strasbourg and Heidelberg, held positions in the teaching service and as Studienrat.

• Lohmann, Hans Eberhard

  * 27 March 1908 in Kassel, †[?]; historian; MGH staff member in the section Scriptores, at the Neues Archiv and in the library 1934-1937, executive director of the MGH and editor in the section Scriptores 1937-1938, scientific assistant at the Statistisches Reichsamt (statistical office) in Berlin 1938-1939; head of the statistical office in the central resident registry of the security police and SD 1939 (?); assistant of the Reichskommissar für die Festigung des deutschen Volkstums (Reich commissioner for the strengthening of German culture 1940 (?), aide in the Reichsministerium des Innern 1942-1944, president of the statistical office of the state Nordrhine-Westfalia

  edited the chronicle of Widukind of Corvey (Widukindi monarchi Corbeiensis Rerum gestarum Saxonicarum libri III) (MGH SS rer. Germ. 60), 1935, Vita Leonis IX. papae (MGH SS rer. Germ. 70), 2007 (Beitr.), and Bruno's De bello Saxonico (MGH Deutsches Mittelalter 2), 1937

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117196207

• Lowe, Elias Avery

  * 15 October 1879 in Kalvarija (Lithuania); † 8 August 1969 in Bad Nauheim; of Jewish descent; classical philologist, palaeographer, professor of palaeography at the university of Oxford; editor of Codices Latini Antiquiores

• Lürssen, Elisabeth

  * 18 September 1880 in Delmenhorst; † 22 April 1972 in Bremen; studied in Göttingen, Munich and Leipzig (PhD); teacher and school director in Bremen; active in the field of educational policy; after WWII politically associated with the liberal party FDP (Freie Demokratische Partei); member of several womens' organisations and chair of the Deutsche Akademikerinnenbund (association of German women academics) (1956-1958)

• Malagola, Carlo

  * 5 August 1855 in Ravenna; † 23 October 1910 in Venice; historian; director of the state archives in Bologna (1882-1898) und Venice (1898-1910)

• Mansi, Giovanni Domenico

  * 16 February 1692 in Lucca, † 27 September 1769 ibid.; Catholic theologian

  his most well-known opus: "Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio / Cujus Joannes Dominicus Mansi et post mortem Florentinus et Venetianus editores ab anno 1758, ad annum 1798, priores triginta unum tomos ediderunt nunc autem continuata, et Deo favente, absoluta", cited as "Mansi" 

• Marsilius of Padua

  1275/80-1342/43; teacher and rector at the university of Paris; wrote the contentious political memorandum "Defensor pacis" dedicated to Emperor Louis the Bavarian in 1324, edited in the MGH series: "Fontes iuris": Marsilius von Padua, Defensor pacis, ed. Richard Scholz, 1932/33

• Mathias of Neuenburg

  from Neuenburg im Breisgau, died 1364; jurist, author of a history of the Empire from the end of the reign of Emperor Frederick II until 1350; his work is edited in volume 4 of the MGH series Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series: Die Chronik des Mathias von Neuenburg (Chronica Mathiae de Nuwenburg), hg. von Adolf Hofmeister, 1924-1940.

• Maurenbrecher, Wilhelm

  * 21 December 1838 in Bonn; † 6 November 1892 in Leipzig; historian, professor at the universities of Dorpat, Königsberg, Bonn, and Leipzig

• Mayer, Theodor

  * 24 August 1883 in Neukirchen (Upper Austria); † 26 November 1972 in Salzburg; historian, director of the Landesarchiv Niederösterreich 1912-1923; professor of medieval history at the universities of Prague, Gießen, Freiburg, and Marburg; member of the NSDAP 1937-1945; rector of the university of Marburg 1939-1942; chair of the MGH central board of directors 1942-1945; director of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome 1942-1945; chairman of the Collegium Carolinum 1956-1970; chairman of the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte (Constance working group for medieval history) 1958-1968

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118579630

• Meyer, Eugen

  * 17 February 1893 in Püttlingen; † 29 August 1972 in Saarbrücken; historian, archivist in the Geheimes Hauptstaatsarchiv (secret state archive) in Berlin-Dahlem, director of the state archive in Münster, professor at the universities of Berlin and Saarbrücken, actively engaged in cultural politics

• Meyer, Wilhelm

  * 1 April 1845 in Speyer; † 9 March 1917 in Göttingen; classical and medieval latin philologist; manuscript cataloguer; secretary of the Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Munich 1875-1886; professor of classical philology in Göttingen since 1886

• Michel, Anton

  * 19 December 1884 in Ebersberg, † 10 May 1958 in Munich; Catholic theologian and church historian

• Mittarelli, Giovanni Benedetto

  1707 – 1777; Benedictine monk, historiographer of the Benedictine order and editor; Abbot of S. Michele in Murano since 1760

• Mommsen, Theodor

  * 30 November 1817 in Garding near Eiderstedt, † 1 November 1903 in Berlin-Charlottenburg; historian, a leading scholar of 19^th century historical studies; professor at the universities of Leipzig, Zürich, Breslau/Wrocław, and Berlin; a liberal Protestant, in the Berlin anti-Semitism debate in 1880, he defended Jewish interests; co-founded the "Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus" (society for the defence against anti-Semitism) in 1890; received the Nobel prize for literature in 1902 for his Roman History published in 3 volumes 1854, 1855, and 1856

  edited for the MGH: Iordanis Romana et Getica (MGH Auct. ant. 5,1,), 1882; Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (I) (MGH Auct. ant. 9), 1892; Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (II) (MGH Auct. ant. 11),1894; Cassiodori Senatoris Variae (MGH Auct. ant. 12), 1894; Chronica mionora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (III) (MGH Auct. ant. 13), 1998, Liber Pontificalis, 1898.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118583425

• Moritz, Friedrich

  * 10 December 1861 in Mainz; † 12 January 1938 in Cologne; medical doctor and internist; extraordinarius professor and director of the university polyclinic in Munich 1892-1902; professor for internal medicine in Strasbourg 1907-1911; director of the medical clinic of the university of Cologne since ab 1919

• Muffat, Karl August

  * 29 October 1804 in Sulzbach; † 28 September 1878 in Munich, historian, archivist and numismatist

• Mühlbacher, Engelbert

  * 4 October 1843 in Gresten (Lower Austria); † 17 July 1903 in Vienna; professor for medieval history and the historische Hilfswissenschaften (cf. terms and translations) in Vienna; member of the MGH central board of directors since 1891; director of the Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung (institute for Austrian historical research) since 1896 

  edited for the MGH: Die Urkunden Pippins, Karlmanns und Karls des Großen (Pippini, Carlomanni, Caroli Magni Diplomata) (MGH DD Karolinorum 1), 1906.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd11716173X

• Müller, Ernst

   † 1941; stepped down from his work on the MGH edition of the charters of Emperor Louis the Pious

• Muratori, Lodovico Antonio

  * 21 October 1672 in Vignola; † 23 January 1750 in Modena; clergyman, author of numerous treatises and editor of source editions on Italian history (Rerum italicarum scriptores, 1723-1738); his editions have been revised and newly edited since 1900

• Nicolaus of Butrinto

  † 1 March 1316 in Toul; Dominican monk, titulary bishop of Butrinto, confidant of Emperor Henry VII;
  author of an account of Emperor Henry VII's journey to Rome: "Relatio de itinere Italico Heinrici VII. ad Clementem V"

  
  

• Oettinger, Clara (née Jaffé)

  1835 – 1858; stepsister of Philipp Jaffé

• Oettinger, Emmy (née Jaffé)

  1837 – 1917; stepsister of Philipp Jaffé

• Otto Morena

  ca, 1100-1161, a judge in Lodi; wrote a historiographical work relating the deeds of Frederick Barbarossa in Lombardy up to the year 1161 (Historia Friderici I. imperatoris); the work is edited in volume 7 of the MGH series Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series: Das Geschichtswerk des Otto Morena und seiner Fortsetzer über die Taten Friedrichs I. in der Lombardei (Ottonis Morenae et continuatorum historia Frederici I.), hg. von Ferdinand Güterbock, 1930.

• Pauli, Reinhold

  * 25 May 1823 in Berlin, † 3. June 1882 in Bremen; historian, professor at the universities of Rostock, Tübingen, Marburg, and Göttingen

  edited for the MGH: Ex rerum Anglicarum scriptoribus saec. XII. et XIII. in MGH SS 27 (1885) and MGH SS 28 (1888).

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd11606501X

• Perels, Anna (née Volkmar)

  1849 – 1924; mother of Ernst Perels

• Perels, Antonie (née Hermes)

  1885 – 1973; married Ernst Perels in 1907

• Perels, Ferdinand

  * 30 June 1836 in Berlin; † 24 December 1903 in Berlin; Jewish background, converted to Protestantism; father of Ernst Perels; director of the civilian department of the Reichsmarineamt (imperial naval office); honorary professor for naval law at the university of Berlin

• Perels, Friedrich-Justus

  * 13 November 1910 in Friedenau near Berlin; † 23 April 1945 in Berlin (executed); jurist; supporter of the movement Bekennende Kirche; arrested on October 5 1944 in connection with the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944 and sentenced to death; the second of the four sons of Ernst Perels und Antonia Perels née Hermes

• Perels, Hans

  1918 – 1941 (killed in action); theologian, youngest of the four sons of Ernst Perels and Antonia Perels née Hermes

• Perels, Kurt

  9 March 1878 in Berlin; † 10 September 1933 in Hamburg (suicide); judge at the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht; professor of legal studies at the university of Hamburg; brother of Ernst Perels

• Perels, Otto

  *13 July 1908;  † 3 August 2003; evangelical pastor; head of the pastoral council of Berlin-Brandenburg 1969-1975; the first of the four sons of Ernst Perels and Antonia Perels née Hermes

• Perels, Ulrich

  1915 – 2000; bookseller, the third of the four sons of Ernst Perels und Antonia Perels, née Hermes

• Perl, Ernestine (née Jaffé)

  1821 – 1851; younger sister of Phillipp Jaffé

• Pertz, Georg Heinrich

  * 28 March 1795 in Hannover; † 7 October 1876 in Munich; historian and librarian; first president of the Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde (later MGH) 1823-1873; director of the Königliche öffentliche Bibliothek Hamburg 1827-1842; head librarian of the Königliche Bibliothek in Berlin 1842-1876; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1875-1876

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118592858

• Pertz, Karl

  * 1 November 1828 in Hannover, † 12 August 1881 in Frankfurt am Main; the eldest son of Georg Heinrich Pertz and suffered under his father's high expectations; assisted his father at the MGH 1854-1875, edited Diplomata regum Francorum e stirpe Merowingica. Diplomata maiorum domus regiae. Diplomata spuria (MGH DD (in Folio) 1), 1872.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116092548

• Petrus de Vinea

  * befor 1200 in Capua; † April 1249 in San Miniato; chancellor of Emperor Frederick II; a letter collection was compiled under his name; the "Briefsammlung" of Petrus de Vinea is an MGH edition project

• Pfundtner, Hans

  * 15 July 1881 in Gumbinnen; † 25 April 1945 in Berlin (suicide); administrative lawyer; entered the NSDAP in 1932; appointed as chief secretary of state in the Reichsministerium des Inneren (ministry of domestic affairs) on 3 February 1933; a leading architect of the Nuremberg Laws (cf. terms and translations), president of the civil service examination commission 1936; authored a comprehensive catalogue of measures to reduce pension payments to Jews
  
  

• Pitra, Jean-Baptiste-François

  * 1 August 1812 in Champforgeuil; † 9 February 1889 in Rom; Benedictine monk and patristics scholar; Cardinal Librarian of the Roman Church since 1869; Cardinal Bishop of Porto since 1884

• Radbert Paschasius

  also known as Radbert of Corbie, ca. 790-860; Benedictine monk, abbot of Corbie; one of the most learned West-Frankish writers of his time; author of theological treatises, biographies, letters, and poems

• Rafanelli, Attilio

  sacristan and since 1901 presumably canon of the cathedral chapter in Pistoia

• Ranke, Leopold (since 1865 with the nobiliary particle "von")

  * 21 December 1795 in Wiehle; † 23 May 1886 in Berlin; historian, professor in Berlin, a founding father of modern historiography (systematic, source-critical approach); initiator of the series: "Jahrbücher des Deutschen Reiches"

  appointed as official historiographer of the Prussian state by King Frederick Wilhelm IV in 1841 and in 1858 as president of the Historischen Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften by the Bavarian King Maximilian II; chief editor of the journal "Historisch-politische Zeitschrift" 1832-1836

• Rauch, Karl

  * 27 March 1880 in Graz; † 26 February 1953 in Bad Godesberg; legal historian, substitute professor, extraordinarius and then ordinarius professor at the universities of Königsberg, Breslau, Jena, Kiel, Bonn, and Graz; worked for the MGH in the section Diplomata 1905-1906; took over the publishing house "Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger" 1924; rector of the university of Graz 1945-1946; founded the publishing house Böhlau Verlag 1947 (under this name since 1951) in Bad Godesberg

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118749226

• Reincke-Bloch, Hermann

  * 15 August 1876 in Berlin; † 1 January 1929 in Breslau/Wrocław; historian, Jewish family background, converted to Evangelical Christianity; worked for the MGH section Diplomata in Strasbourg 1892-1898; regular professor for medieval and modern history at the university of Rostock 1904-1921; minister-president of the Freistaat Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1920-1921, regular professor for medieval and modern history in Breslau/Wrocław 1923-1929

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116416238

• Riccobaldus von Ferrara

  1246 – after 1320; notary, author of a chronicle of Ferrara, a compendium of Roman history, and geographical compilations

• Ritschl, Friedrich Wilhelm

  * 6 April 1806 in Großvargula, Princedom of Erfurt; † 9 November 1876 in Leipzig, classical philologist, professor at the universities of Halle, Breslau, Bonn, and Leipzig

• Rödiger, Max

  1850 – 1918; German philologist; lecturer at the university of Berlin 1880, since 1883 untenured professor; freelance work for the MGH on the edition of German chronicles 1875-1880

• Roepell, Richard

  4 November 1808 in Danzig/Gdansk, † 4 November 1893 in Breslau/Wrocław; historian, professor and rector at the university of Breslau

  edited for the MGH: Annales Poloniae (MGH SS. rer. Germ. 11), 1866

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116583800

• Rosenberg, Alfred

  12 January 1893 in Reval /Tallinn, Estonia; † 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg; leading NSDAP ideologue and author of several works on racist ideology

  for more on his curriculum vitae, see: https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/alfred-rosenberg

  at the end of WWII charged with war crimes in Nuremberg Tribunal, convicted and sentenced to death

• Ruland, Anton

  * 25 November 1809 in Würzburg; † 8 January 1874 in Munich; theologian, Catholic priest, member of the chamber of representatives in the Bayerischer Landtag (parliament); since 1850 head librarian at the university library of Würzburg

• Rust, Bernhard

  * 30 September 1883 in Hannover; † 8 May 1945 in Berend/Nübel; membership in NSDAP and SA since 1925; appointed commissarial Prussian minister of culture and education 2 February 1933; 1934 entrusted with forming the Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung (cf. terms and translations) with himself as minister; founded the Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des Neuen Deutschlands for an ideological interpretation of modern German history and reorganised the MGH as its sister-institute for medieval history under subordination to his ministry; shot himself at the end of WWII

• Santifaller, Leo

  * 24 July 1890 in Kastelruth (Tirol); † 5 September 1974 in Vienna; historian; worked for the MGH section Diplomata 1927-1929; regular professor of medieval and modern history in Breslau/Wrocław 1929-1943; regular professor for medieval history and the historische Hilfswissenschaften (cf. terms and translations) in Vienna 1943-1962; regular member of the MGH central board of directors and head of the section Diplomata in Vienna 1948-1974; director of the Österreichisches Kulturinstitut in Rome 1956-1964

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116804785

• Sauppe, Hermann

  * 9 December 1809 in Weesenstein near Dresden, † 15 September 1893 in Göttingen; classical philologist and epigraphist, professor at the university of Göttingen

• Schäfer, Arnold

  * 16 October 1819 in Seehausen/Bremen; † 19 November 1883 in Bonn; ancient historian, professor at the universities of Greifswald and Bonn

• Scheffer-Boichorst, Paul

  * 25 May 1843 in Elberfeld; † 17 January 1902 in Berlin; professor of history at the universities of Gießen, Strasbourg and Berlin; scholarly assistant under Georg Heinrich Pertz 1872-1873, worked for the MGH section Scriptores 1875-1891, elected member of the MGH central board of directors since 1891

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118606859

• Schemann, Ludwig

  * 16 October 1852 in Cologne; † 13 February 1938 in Freiburg i. Br.; historian, proponent of racist theories; librarian in Göttingen since 1875; founding member of the volkish Werdandi-Association; honorary member of the Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands (cf. terms and translations) since 1937

• Schenkl, Heinrich

  * 29 January 1859, † 3 December 1919; classical philologist; professor at the university of Graz since 1892 and at the university of Vienna since 1917

• Schiaparelli, Luigi

  * 2 August 1871 in Cerrione; † 26 January 1934 in Florence; palaeographer and charter scholar; member of the Istituto italiano per il medio evo since 1902; taught palaeography in Florence since 1903, published numerous charter editions

• Schieffer, Rudolf

  * 31 January 1947 in Mainz; † 14 September 2018 in Bonn; historian, son of Theodor Schieffer; worked for the MGH sections Leges and Epistolae 1975-1980; professor for medieval and modern history at the university of Bonn 1980-1994; president of the MGH 1994-2012; professor for medieval history at the university of Munich 1994-2012, awarded numerous honorary memberships

  edited for the MGH: Hinkmar von Reims, De ordine palatii (Hincmar De ordine palatii) (MGH Fontes iuris 3), 1980; Epistolae Karolini aevi (VI) Hincmari archiepiscopi Remensis epistolae (Die Briefe des Erzbischofs Hinkmar von Reims) Teil 2 (MGH Epp. 8), 2018; other MGH publications: Die Entstehung des päpstlichen Investiturverbots für den deutschen König (Schriften der MGH 28), 1981; Mittelalterliche Texte. Überlieferung - Befunde - Deutungen. Kolloquium der Zentraldirektion der MGH am 28./29. Juni 1996 (Schriften der MGH 42), 1996.
  
  

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd121910695

• Schmeidler, Bernhard

  * 6 August 1879 in Berlin; † 28 May 1959 in München; historian and charter scholar; worked for the MGH section Scriptores 1904-1920; "außerplanmäßiger" (titulary) professor for medieval and modern history at the university of Erlangen 1916-1921, regular professor for medieval and modern history at the university of Erlangen 1926-1936; corresponding member of the MGH central board of directors 1954-1959

  edited for the MGH: Die Annalen des Tholomeus von Lucca in doppelter Fassung (Tholomei Lucensis Annales) (MGH SS. rer. Germ. N. S. 8), 1930; Adam von Bremen, Hamburgische Kirchengeschichte (Magistri Adam Bremensis Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum) (MGH SS rer. Germ. 2), 1917; Helmolds Slavenchronik (Helmoldi presbyteri Bozoviensis Chronica Slavorum). Anhang: Die Verse über das Leben Vicelins und der Brief Sidos (MGH SS rer. Germ. 32), 1937.
  
  

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117455881

• Schmitz, Gerhard

  * 7 February 1947 in Hennef-Uckerath; historian, worked for the MGH series Capitula since 1978; "außerplanmäßiger" (titular) professor for history at the university of Tübingen; deputy of the MGH president 1994-2012; 

  edited for the MGH:  Die Kapitulariensammlung des Ansegis (Collectio capitularium Ansegisi) (MGH Capit. N. S. 1), 1996; Die Konzilien der karolingischen Teilreiche 875-911 with Wilfried Hartmann and Isolde Schröder (MGH Conc. 5), 2012/2014; other publications: Fortschritt durch Fälschungen? Ursprung, Gestalt und Wirkungen der peudoisidorischen Fälschungen. Beiträge zum gleichnamigen Symposium an der Universität Tübingen vom 27. und 28. Juli 2001 (MGH Studien und Texte 31), 2002; De presbiteris criminosis. Ein Memorandum Erzbischofs Hinkmars von Reims über straffällige Kleriker (MGH Studien und Texte 34), 2004.
  
  

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1037379977

• Schneider, Fedor

  * 24 July 1879 in Hansdorf (Silesia/Poland), † 27 February 1932 in Frankfurt am Main; historian, editor in the MGH section Epistolae 1902-1904; member of staff at the Prussian Historisches Institut in Rome 1904-1914, university professor in Frankfurt am Main 1920-1932

  edited for the MGH: Iohannis abbatis Victoriensis Liber certarum historiarum , (MGH SS rer. Germ. 36, Teil 1 und Teil 2), 1909 and 1910.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116824654

• Scholz, Georg

  * 23 January 1900 in Bytom, Upper Silesia; † 25 January 1945 in Michałów, Lower Silesia;  Roman-Catholic clergyman; since 1930 chaplain in Gorzów Śląski/Upper Silesia, then priest in Michałów; shot by soldiers of the Red Army 1945

• Scholz, Richard

  * 9 January 1872 in Dresden; † 6 February 1946 in Leipzig; historian, professor at the university of Leipzig 1908-1937; MGH editor for the series Staatschriften; signed the "vow of allegiance of professors of German universities to Adolf Hitler" in 1933

  edited for the MGH: the works of Conrad of Megenberg: Teil 1: Planctus ecclesiae in Germaniam (MGH Staatsschriften 2), 1941; Marsilius von Padua, Defensor pacis. Teil 1 und 2 (MGH Fontes iuris 7), 1932 and 1933; also published: Wilhelm von Ockham als politischer Denker und sein Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico (Schriften der MGH 8), 1944

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd116911778

• Schramm, Percy Ernst

  * 14 October 1894 in Hamburg, † 12 November 1970 in Göttingen; MGH editor in the Sections Diplomata and Scriptores 1923-1926; professor at the university of Göttingen; member of the SA 1934-1938, member of the NSDAP 1937-1945; regular elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1956-1970, regular member of the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen 1937-1970, several other honorary academy memberships
  wrote: Herrschaftszeichen und Staatssymbolik. Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte vom 3. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert. (m. Beiträgen versch. Verfasser). Teil 1-3 (Schriften der MGH 13), 1954-1956.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118759256

• Schur, Paul Adolf Werner

  * 5 August 1888 in Dorpat; † 19 December 1950 in Heidelberg; ancient historian, professor at the university of Breslau/Wrocław 1922-1945, thereafter private scholar in Heidelberg; research focus: middle and later history of the Roman republic

• Schwalm, Jakob

  * 30 January 1865 in Frankfurt a. M.; † 28 July 1931 in Florence (Italy); historian and librarian; MGH editor for the series Constitutiones

  edited for the MGH: Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regum (1273-1298) (MGH Const. 3), 1904-1906; Constitutiones et acta publica imoeratorum et regum (1298-1313). Teil 1 (MGH Const. 4), 1906; Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regum (1298-1313). Teil 2 (MGH Const. 4), 1908-1911; Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regum (1313-1324) (MGH Const. 5), 1909-1911; Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regum (1325-1330) (MGH Const. 6,1), 1914-1927.

• Schwartz, Gerhard

  * 29 October 1889 in Rostock; † 2 November 1914 in the Vosges (France); historian, worked for the MGH section Scriptores 1913-1914

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd174081693

• Schweitzer-Bresslau, Helene

  * 25 January 1879 in Berlin, † 1 June 1957 in Zurich; daughter of Caroline Isay and Harry Bresslau; teacher and nurse; married Albert Schweitzer 1912, mother of Rhena Schweitzer-Miller

• Schweitzer-Miller, Rhena

  * 14 January 1919 in Strasbourg; † 22 February 2009 in Los Angeles (California, USA); daughter of Albert Schweitzer and Helene Schweitzer-Bresslau; administrative director of the jungle hospital in Lambaréné (Gabun) 1965-1970; continued the humanitarian work of her father throughout the world, founded the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities togethte with Harold Robles 1984

• Schweitzer, Albert

   14 January 1875 in Kaysersberg; † 4 September 1965 in Lambaréné (Gabun); medical doctor, philosopher, evangelical theologist, organist, musicologist, and pacifist; married Helene Bresslau 1912; founded the jungle hospital in Lambaréné (Gabun) 1913; awarded the 1952 Nobel peace prize, received the prize in 1954

• Seckel, Emil

  * 10 January 1864 in Heidelberg; † 26 April 1924 in Todtmoos; jurist, scholar of Romance studies, legal historian; professor of Roman law in Berlin since 1901, elected member of the MGH central board of directors and head of the section Leges since 1914, rector of the university of Berlin 1920-1921

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118612530

• Seidl, Arthur

  * 8 June 1863 in Munich; † 11 April 1928 in Dessau; author and dramaturg, editor of several journals and newspapers (including Deutsche Wacht, Die Moderne, Münchener Neueste Nachrichten), work at the Nietzsche-Archiv in Weimar 1898-1899, dramaturg at the Dessau Hoftheater since 1903

• Sickel, Theodor (since 1884 with the nobiliary particle "von")

  * 18 December 1826 in Aken/Saxonia; † 21 Apri 1908 in Meran; historian and charter scholar; regular professor for history and the "historical Hilfswissenschaften" (cf. terms and translations) at the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 1867-1901; member of the MGH central board of directors 1875-1893, head of the MGH series Diplomata of the Ottonian Age; director of the Austrian Institut für Historische Studien in Rome 1883-1901; corresponding and then external member of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna, member of the Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, and the Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften; numerous awards of merit including nobilitation as a member of the Austrian Ritterstand (1884), the honorary title of k. u. k. Hofrat, and the Bavarian Maximiliansorden for science and the arts (1902)

  
  

  developed the method of comparing writing and dictation elements still used in diplomatics; edited for the MGH: the charters of Conrad I, Henery I, and Otto I (Conradi I., Heinrici I. et Ottonis I. Diplomata) (MGH DD regum et imperatorum Germaniae 1), 1879-1884; the charters of Otto II (Ottonis II. Diplomata) (MGH DD regum et imperatorum Germaniae 2,1), 1888; and the charters of Otto III (Ottonis III. Diplomata) (MGH DD regum et imperatorum Germaniae 2,2), 1893.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118797026

• Sievers, Wolfram

  * 10 July 1905 in Hildesheim; † 2 June 1948 in Landsberg am Lech; NSDAP member since 1929, entered the SS in 1935; secretary general of the "Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte ‚Deutsches Ahnenerbe‘“ (cf. terms and translations) since its foundation, nach the restructuring in 1937 Reichgeschäftsführer (chief executive)

  at the end of WWII faced charges of human experimentation and war crimes at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial, convicted on August 20 1947 and executed in Landsberg am Lech on June 2 1948.

• Simonsfeld, Elkan

  probably born 1825 in Ottensoos / Franconia; died 1853 or 1854 in Mexico; Jewish, father of Henry Simonsfeld

• Simonsfeld, Sophie (geb. ?)

  date of birth uncertain, possibly 1829; died in 1901 in Munich; mother of Henry Simonsfeld

• Simson, Bernhard (since 1888 with the nobiliary particle "von")

  * 19 February 1840 in Königsberg/Kaliningrad, † 15 August 1915 in Berlin, historian, professor at the university of Freiburg i.Br.; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1907-1915; worked for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, corresponding member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

  edited for the MGH: Annales Mettenses priores (MGH SS rer. Germ. 10), 1905; Annales Xantenses et Annales Vedastini (MGH SS rer. Germ. 12), 1909; the chronicle of provost Burchard of Ursberg (Burchardi praepositi Urspergensis Chronicon) (MGH SS rer. Germ. 16), 1916; Ottonis et Rahewini Gesta Friderici I. imperatoris (MGH SS rer. Germ. 46), 1912

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117400300

• Sinauer, Moritz

  lawyer, father of Erika Sinauer

• Spitko, Ladislaus

  * 1857; an employee of the Grandhotel Straubinger in Bad Gastein; owned a restaurant and a hotel in resp. near Meran around 1900

• Stälin, Christoph Friedrich (since 1850 with the nobiliary particle "von")

  * 4 August 1805 in Calw; † 12 August 1873 in Stuttgart; historian, employed at the royal library in Stuttgart from 1825, library director since 1869

• Steffenhagen, Emil

  * 23 August 1838 in Goldap; † 20 September 1919 in Coburg; legal historian, councillor, librarian; director of the Universitätsbibliothek Kiel 1875; commissioned with editing the Sachsenspiegel-glosses (cf. terms and translations) for the Austrian Akademie der Wissenschaften in 1877; published studies on the legal and historical manuscripts in the library of Königsberg; worked for the Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie

• Steindorff, Ernst

  * 15 June 1839 in Flensburg; † 9 April 1895 in Göttingen; historian, professor at the university of Göttingen; editor of the "Jahrbücher des Deutschen Reichs unter Heinrich III", 2 vol., 1874, 1881

• Stengel, Edmund Ernst

  * 24 December 1879 in Marburg; † 4 October 1968 in Marburg; historian; worked for the MGH section Leges 1903-1906;  regular professor for medieval and modern history and the historische Hilfswissenschaften (cf. terms and translations) in Marburg 1922-1937, member of the NSDAP 1942-1945; president of the Reichsinstitut für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde (MGH) 1937-1942, director of the deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom 1937-1942, corresponding member of the MGH central board of directors 1948-1968, elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1950-1968; head of the Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden (archive of photographic reproductions of original charters) 1929-1963

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118798669

• Sthamer, Eduard

  * 26 December 1883 in Hamburg, † 28 April 1938 in Berlin; historian; member of staff at the Prussian Historisches Institut in Rome 1907-1908; conducted research on behalf of the MGH im state archive in Naples 1908-1915, librarian of the Prussian Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin 1919-1938

• Stobbe, Johann Ernst Otto

  * 28 June 1831 in Königsberg i. Pr.; † 19 May 1887 in Leipzig; jurist and professor of civil and Church law; rector of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau/Wrocław 1869-1871; rector of the university of Leipzig 1878/79

• Strecker, Karl

  * 4 September 1861 in Fritzow (Pomerania); † 15 November 1945 in Berlin; medievalist and medieval Latin philologist; MGH editor for the series Poetae latini 1907-1912; extraordinarius professor for medieval Latin philology in Berlin 1909-1923; elected member of the MGH central board of directors and director of the section Poetae latini 1912-1935; professor ordinarius for medieval Latin philology in Berlin 1923-1929

  edited for the MGH: Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam (MGH SS rer. Germ. 24), 1935; Die Cambridger Lieder (Carmina Cantabrigiensia) (MGH SS rer. Germ. N. S. 40), 1926; Die Tegernseer Briefsammlung. Froumund (MGH Epp. sel. 3), 1925; Poetae Latini aevi Carolini (IV). Teil 2: Rhythmi aevi Merovingici et Carolini (MGH Poetae 4), 1914; Poetae Latini aevi Carolini (IV). Teil 3: Supplementa (MGH Poetae 4), 1923; Die Ottonenzeit. Teil 1/2 (MGH Poetae 5), 1937-1939.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118973320

• Stumpf-Brentano, Karl Friedrich

  * 13 August 1829 in Vienna, † 12 January 1882 in Innsbruck; historian, professor at the legal academy in Pressburg/Bratislava and the university of Innsbruck; corresponding member of: the Königlich-Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich, the Accademia degl'Intronati in Siena (Italy), the Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna, the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen; member of the central board of directors of the MGH 1875-1882 as a delegate of the Vienna Academy

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117363545

• Swarzenski, Georg

  * 11 January 1876 in Dresden; † 14 June 1957 in Brookline/Massachusetts; Jewish, art historian, pupil of Adolph Goldschmidt; worked fo the Kunstgewerbemuseum (museum of art fabrication) in Berlin and the Kunsthistorisches Institut (insitute of art history) in Florenz; director of the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt a. M. until 1938, emigration to Princeton (New Jersey, USA) in 1938 and appointment as Fellow for Research in Medieval Art and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

• Tangl, Michael

  * 26 May 1861 in Wolfsberg (Carinthia); † 7 September 1921 in Klagenfurt; historian and charter scholar, professor at the univerisities of Marburg and Berlin; worked for the MGH in the section Diplomata 1892-1895; elected member of the MGH central board of directors since 1902, head of the sections Diplomata Karolinorum and Epistolae; deputy chairman of the central board of directors 1914-1919

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117199974

• Tellenbach, Gerd

  * 17 September 1903 in Groß-Lichterfelde; † 12 June 1999 in Freiburg i. Br.; medievalist and historian; ordenarius professor in Gießen(1938-1942), Münster (1942-1944), and Freiburg (1944-1962); corresponding member of the MGH central board of directors 1948-1999; MGH editor of the Libri memoriales 1955-1970, elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1956-1999; director of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome 1962-1972; influential prosopographical researcher ("Tellenbach-Schule")

  edited for the MGH: Liber memorialis von Remiremont (MGH Libri mem. 1), 1970.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd11862122X

• Thietmar of Merseburg

  975-1018, since 1009 bishop of Merseburg; wrote a chronicle with important information for the history of the Empire, edited in vol. 9 of the MGH series Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series: Die Chronik des Bischofs Thietmar von Merseburg und ihre Korveier Überarbeitung (Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi Chronicon), ed. Robert Holtzmann, 1935.

• Tholomeus (or Tolomeo) of Lucca

  1236-1326/27, a student under St. Thomas Aquinas; repeatedly worked for the papal Curia; bishop of Torcello; wrote Annals edited in volume 8 of the MGH series Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series: Die Annalen des Tholomeus von Lucca in doppelter Fassung (Tholomei Lucensis Annales), hg. von Bernhard Schmeidler, 1930; and also a work on church history, edited as volume 39 of the MGH series Scriptores (in Folio): Tholomaeus von Lucca, Historia ecclesiastica nova nebst Fortsetzungen bis 1329, hg. Ottavio Clavuot nach Vorarbeiten von Ludwig Schmugge, 2009.

• Tiedge

  unidentified

• Tolosanus

  † 5 April 1226; clergyman, deacon and magister of the church of his home town, Faenza near Ravenna; wrote a chronicle of Faenza (Chronicon seu Historia Faventinae civitatis)

  the Chronicon Faventinum of Tolosanus was edited in 1936-1939 by Giuseppe Rossini in volume 28,1 of the series "Rerum Italicarum Scriptores N. S."

• Traube, Cora (née Marckwald)

  1830 – 1876; daughter of Naumann Wolff Marckwald, a Berlin wool merchant; mother of Ludwig Traube

• Traube, Ludwig (Louis)

  * 12 January 1818 in Ratibor/Upper Silesia; † 11 April 1876 in Berlin; Jewish; father of Ludwig Traube; medical doctor and pathologist, one of the founding fathers of experimental pathology in Germany; privy councillor for medicine 1866; "on the grounds of confessional objections" he did not receive a regular professorship until 1872 and was the first Jew to do so at the university of Berlin

• Ulrich of Bamberg

  cleric of the cathedral church of Bamberg, lived in the 12^th century; compiled a collection of letters and charters intended as models for writing such documents (Ars dictandi); his work is edited in volume 10 of the MGH series "Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit": Codex Udalrici, hg. von Klaus Naß, 2017

• Varrentrapp, Conrad Eduard

  * 17 August 1844 in Braunschweig; † 28 April 1911 in Marburg; historian, professor at the universities of Bonn, Strasbourg, and Marburg

• Vienken, Thea

  * 12 June 1912 in Rotthausen near Essen; historian; worked for the MGH section Diplomata 1938-1943; ministerial councilor in the state chancellery 1949-1975

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117413917

• Voigt, Georg

  * 5 April 1827 in Königsberg i. Pr.; † 18 August 1891 in Leipzig, historian, since 1866 professor at the universities of Rostock and Leipzig

• vom und zum Stein, Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr

  * 25 Oktober 1757 in Nassau, Herrschaft Stein zu Nassau; † 29 June 1831 in Cappenberg, Province Westfalia, Kingdom of Prussia; Prussian statesman and reformer, founder of the MGH

  On January 20 1819, vom Stein constituted the "Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde" (cf. terms and translations) together with four envoys from Baden, Bavaria, Mecklenburg, and Württemberg.

  The same statesmen were also involved in founding the "Deutscher Bund" at the Congress of Vienna in 1815; inspired by a spirit of national enthusiasm, they initiated the project of preparing the „Gesamtausgabe der Quellenschriftsteller deutscher Geschichten des Mittelalters“ (complete edition of the source writers of German medieval histories) under the name „Monumenta Germaniae Historica“ (the written historical monuments of Germany)

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118617273

• von Franklin, Otto

  * 27 January 1830 in Berlin; † 5 June 1905 in Tübingen; legal historian, professor at the universities of Greifswald and Tübingen

• von Gierke, Otto Friedrich

  * 11 January 1841 in Stettin; † 10 October 1921 in Berlin-Charlottenburg; legal historian; professor extraordinarius in Berlin 1871; rector of the Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau/Wrocław 1882/83; professor in Heidelberg 1884, rector of the university of Berlin 1902/03; member of the founding commission of the Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (German legal dictionary, DRW)

• von Kluckhohn, August

  * 6 July 1832 in Bavenhausen; † 19 May 1893 in Munich; historian, editor of the Historische Zeitschrift; member of the Historische Kommission; professor at the universities of Munich and Göttingen, member of the Bavarian and Göttingen Academies of Sciences and Humanities

• von Löher, Franz

  * 15 October 1818 in Paderborn; † 1 March 1892 in Munich; legal historian and politician

• von Mühler, Heinrich

  * 4 November 1813 in Brieg/Brzeg (Poland, province Silesia);  † 2 April 1874 in Potsdam; jurist and politician, member of the Evangelical High Consistory; Prussian minister of education and cultural affairs 1862-1872

• von Noorden, Carl

  * 11 September 1833 in Bonn; † 25 December 1883 in Leipzig; historian, professor at the universities of Greifswald, Marburg, Tübingen, Bonn, and Leipzig

• von Ottenthal, Emil

  * 15 June 1855 in Sand i. Taufers (Tirol), † 5 February 1931 in Vienna; historian, charter scholar; MGH editor in the section Diplomata, professor at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna; director of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 1903-1926; member of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna, corresponding member of the Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften; member of the MGH central board of directors 1904-1928 as a delegate of the Vienna academy, director of the section Diplomata in Vienna

  edited for the MGH: the charters of Lothair III und and Empress Richenza (Lotharii III. Diplomata nec non Richenzae imperatricic Placita) (MGH DD regum et imperatorum Germaniae 8), 1927.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd11717078X

• von Rochow, Gustav Adolf Rochus

  * 1 October 1792 in Schloss Nennhausen near Rathenow (Brandenburg);  † 11 September 1847 in Schloss Reckahn, district Zauch-Belzig; royal Prussian minister of state and minister of interior affairs (responsible for the police); reformed the prison system; author of the Prussian State Railway legislation; collaborated in founding the "Dampfkesselüberwachungsverein" (steam engine surveillance association, precursor to the German "Technische Überwachungsverein" TÜV)

• von Rockinger, Ludwig

  * 29 December 1824 in Würzburg, † 24 December 1914 in Munich; extraordinary member of the Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1856-1868; honorary professor for palaeography and Bavarian history at the university of Munich 1873-1896; corresponding member of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna 1874-1914; member of the MGH central board of directors 1889-1894 as a delegate of the Munich academy, director of the Bayerisches Allgemeines Reichsarchiv 1889-1895

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd11657870X

• von Roth, Paul Rudolf

  * 11 July 1820 in Nuremberg; † 29 March 1892 in Munich; legal scholar, professor at the universities of Marburg, Rostock, Kiel, and Munich, since 1866 head librarian at the Universitätsbibliothek Munich

• von Savigny, Friedrich Carl

  * 21 February 1779 in Frankfurt a. M.; † 25 October 1861 in Berlin; professor of law at the universities of Marburg and Berlin; Prussian statesman and minister; legal historian; the Savigny Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte was named after him

• von Schwerin, Claudius Freiherr

  * 2 September 1880 in Passau; † 13 June 1944 in Munich (in an air-raid); jurist and legal historian with research focus on Nordic-Germanic legal history; professor at the universities of Berlin, Strasbourg, Freiburg i.Br., and Munich; member of the NSDAP since 1937, member in the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Juristen (association of Nationalsocialist German jurists); regular member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften since 1942 

  edited for the MGH: Leges Saxonum und Lex Thuringorum (MGH Fontes iuris 4), 1918.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118965573

• von Sybel, Heinrich

  * 2 December 1817 in Düsseldorf, † 1 August 1895 in Marburg; historian, professor at the universities of Bonn, Marburg, and München; rector at the university of Bonn; director of the Prussian state archive; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1878-1895, member of the Prussian parliament 1862-1864 and 1874-1880, president of the Historische Kommission at the Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften  1886-1895

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd118620223

• von Treitschke, Heinrich

  * 15 September 1834 in Dresden; † 28 April 1896 in Berlin; historian and political scientist, professor at the universities of Freiburg i.Br., Kiel, Heidelberg, and Berlin; member of the German Reichstag 1871-1884 (national-liberal, later partyless); published a polemic, anti-Semitic memorandum entitled "Unsere Aussichten" (our views) in 1879 that triggered the Berlin anti-Semitism debate

• von Winterfeld, Paul

  * 20 August 1872 in Tynwalde/West-Prussia; † 4 April 1905 in Belzig; medievalist and classical philologist; scholar of medieval Latin; worked for the MGH series Poeta latini 1895-1904; professor extraordinarius for classical philology at the university of Berlin since 1904

  edited for the MGH: Hrotsvithae Opera (MGH SS rer. Germ. 34), 1902; Poetae Latini aevi Carolini (IV). Teil 1 (MGH Poetae 4), 1899.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd11741056X

• Wagner, Cosima

  * 24 December 1837 in Bellagio (Kingdom Lombardy-Venetia); † 1 April 1930 in Bayreuth; illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and Countess Marie d'Agoult; married to Hans von Bülow 1857, in second marriage to Richard Wagner 1870; since 1908 director of the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth

• Waitz, Georg

  * 9 October 1813 in Flensburg; † 24 May 1886 in Berlin; legal historian and medievalist; professor of history at the universities of Kiel and Göttingen; scholarly assistant under Georg Heinrich Pertz 1836-1842; member of the Frankfurt National Assembly; member of the MGH central board of directors since 1875 as a delegate of the Berlin academy; chair of the MGH central board of directors 1875-1886, head of the section Scriptores.

  edited for the MGH: Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI-IX (MGH SS rer. Lang.), 1878; Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars I (MGH SS 13), 1881; Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars II. Supplementum tomi XIII (MGH SS 14), 1883; Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars III. Supplementum tomi XIII (MGH SS 15, Teil 1), 1887; Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars III. Supplementum tomi XIII (MGH SS 15, Teil 2), 1888; Annales aevi Suevici (Supplementa tomorum XVI et XVII). Gesta saec. XII. XIII. (Supplementa tomorum XX-XXIII) (MGH SS 24), 1879.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd119059142

• Wattenbach, Marie (geb. von Hennings)

  Maria Theresia Antonie Auguste von Hennings, cousin of Wilhelm Wattenbach and his wife since 1885

• Wattenbach, Wilhelm

  * 22 September 1819 in Rantzau/Holstein; † 20 September 1897 in Frankfurt a. M; historian, professor of history at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin; scholarly assistant under Georg Heinrich Pertz 1843-1855; archivist in Breslau/Wrocław 1855-1862; member of the MGH central board of directors 1875-1888; head of the MGH section Epistolae; commissarial chair of the MGH central board of directors 1886-1888; author of the reference work: Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des XIII. Jahrhunderts, 1858.

  edited for the MGH: Brunonis de bello Saxonico liber (MGH SS rer. Germ. 15), 1880.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117151386

• Wegele, Franz Xaver (since 1881 with the nobiliary particle "von")

  * 29 October 1823 in Landsberg am Lech, † 17 October 1897 in Würzburg; historian, co-editor of the Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie, professor at the universities of Jena and Würzburg, member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

• Weigle, Fritz

  * 14 May 1899 in Einlage bei Danzig/Gdansk; † 28 December 1966 in Munich; historian; Ph.D. under Ernst Perels in 1934; worked for the MGH series Epistolae 1935-1939 and 1948-1966; assistant advisor with the rang of "Sonderführer Z" in division III under the BdS (Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und SD: commander of security police) in Verona; worked for the Deutsches Historisches Insitut in Rome 1939-1943; cultural aide in Ansbach 1945-1947, dismissed from office on account of not declaring his activities for the BdS

  edited for the MGH: Briefe Rathers von Verona (MGH Epp. 2,1), 1949; die Briefe des Bischofs Rather von Verona (MGH Epp. Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit 1), 1949; die Briefsammlung Gerberts von Reims (MGH Epp. Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit 2), 1966.

• Weirich, Hans

  * 25 November 1909 in Brambauer near Dortmund, † 14 June 1942 near Kursk in Russia; historian, executive director and editor of the Deutsches Archiv 1938-1939, professor at the university of Tübingen 1941-1942

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117276200

• Weizsäcker, Julius

  * 13 February 1828 in Öhringen; † 3 September 1889 in Bad Kissingen; historian and evangelical theologian; professor for history at the universities of Tübingen, Erlangen, Strabourg, Göttingen, and Berlin; elected member of the MGH central board of directors 1884-1889;  regular member of the Prussian Akademie der Wissenschaften 1887, external member of the Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1888

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd177925825

• Wibel, Hans

  * 24 February 1872 in Hamburg; † 20 February 1922 in Berlin (traffic accident); historian, charter scholar; worked for the MGH section Diplomata 1901-1922; regular member of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in Strasbourg 1917-1918; councilor at the MGH central board of directors 1921-1922

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd117334723

• Widukind von Corvey (auch Korvei)

  ca. 925-973; Benedictine monk in the monastery of Corvey, wrote a history of the Saxons (Res gestae Saxonicae) dedicated to abbess Mathilda of Quedlinburg, a daughter of Emperor Otto I; his work is edited in volume 60 of the MGH series Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi: Die Sachsengeschichte des Widukind von Korvei (Widukindi monachi Corbeiensis Rerum gestarum Saxonicarum libri III), Anhang: Die Schrift über die Herkunft der Schwaben, hg. Paul Hirsch und Hans-Eberhard Lohmann, 1935.

• Wigand

  unidentified

• Wipo

  * before 1000; † after 1046; a medieval Latin poet and historiographer; records himself as court chaplain of the Emperors Henry II., Conrad II, and Henry III; his most important works are: The biography of the Salic Emperor Conrad II (Die Lebensbeschreibung des salischen Kaisers Konrad II.; Gesta Chuonradi II. imperatoris) and his Easter musical sequence (Victimae paschali laudes); his works are edited by Harry Bresslau in: MGH SS rer. Germ. 61, printed 1878 and 1915 in an improved edition in the octave series

• Zarncke, Friedrich

  * 7 July 1825 in Zahrensdorf; † 15 October 1891 in Leipzig; German philologist at the university of Leipzig, since 1979 corresponding member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

• Zatschek, Heinz

  * 27 June 1901 in Vienna, † 23 May 1965 in Tettnang; MGH editor in the Viennese section Diplomata 1924-1929, professor at the German university in Prague and the university of Vienna; member of the NSDAP 1939-1945; director of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (museum of military history) in Vienna 1957-1965

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd140133496

• Zschaeck, Fritz

  MGH editor in the secion Scriptores 1924-1928; archivist at the Stadt- und Landständearchiv in Arnsberg 1925-1927

  edited for the MGH: Die Chronik der Grafen von der Mark von Levold von Northof (Levoldi de Northof Chronica comitum de Marka) (MGH SS rer. Germ. N. S. 6), 1928.

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd102293201

• Zwölfer, Theodor

  * 13 March 1895 in Bukarest; † 18 February 1988; MGH member of staff, librarian 1926-1929; archivist in the Stadtarchiv (municipal archive) Freiburg 1929, since 1948 archive director

  http://www.mgh.de/mghmit/gnd1027648223