Ernst Ludwig Dümmler (2 January 1830 – 11 September 1902) was a Germanhistorian.
Ernst Ludwig was born inBerlin, the son ofFerdinand Dümmler, a Berlin bookseller. He studiedlaw,classical philology andhistory, among other things, atBonn underJohann Wilhelm Löbell, and inBerlin, where his influences wereLeopold von Ranke andWilhelm Wattenbach.[1] His doctorate dissertation,De Arnulfo Francorum rege (Berlin, 1852), was a notable essay among historians.[2]
He entered the faculty atHalle in 1855, and started an historical seminar. In 1858 he became an associate professor, in 1866 full professor. In 1875, he became a member of the revised committee directing theMonumenta Germaniae Historica, himself undertaking the direction of the section "Antiquitates". In 1888 he became president of the central board in Berlin. This was an official recognition of Dümmler's leading position among German historians.[2]
In addition to numerous critical works and editions of texts, he published:
His great work was theGeschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches (Berlin, 1862–1865, 2 volumes; 2nd ed., 1887–1888, in 3 volumes). In conjunction with Wattenbach, he completed theMonumenta Alcuiniana (Berlin, 1873), which had been begun byPhilipp Jaffé, and withRudolf Köpke, he wroteKaiser Otto der Grosse (Leipzig, 1876).
He edited the anonymousLorsch riddles twice—first in 1879 and then again two years later, in 1881.[3] He also edited the first and second volumes of the "Poetae Latini aevi Carolini" for theMonumenta Germaniae Historica (Berlin, 1881–84).[2][4]
His son,Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (1859–1896), an archaeologist and philologist, was professor at theUniversity of Basel from 1890 until his death on 15 November 1896, aged 37.[2]
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