Ludwig Traube (palaeographer) explained

Ludwig Traube (June 19, 1861 – May 19, 1907) was a German paleographer and held the first chair of Medieval Latin in Germany while at the University of Munich. He was a son of the physician Ludwig Traube (1818–1876), and the brother of the chemist Margarete Traube (1856–1912).^[1]

Biography

Traube was born in Berlin, the son of a middle-class Jewish family, and studied at the universities of Munich and Greifswald. In 1883 he finished his Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled Varia libamenta critica. He finished his habilitation in classical and medieval philology in 1888 with a part of his book on Carolingian poetry (Karolingische Dichtungen).^[2]

In 1897 he became a member of the central management of Monumenta Germaniae Historica. In 1902 he was appointed professor of Latin philology of the Middle Ages at Munich.^[3] In 1905 he discovered that he had leukemia, dying from it two years later.^[4]

Selected works

• O Roma nobilis : philologische Untersuchungen aus dem Mittelalter, 1891  - O Roma nobilis: philological studies from the Middle Ages.
• Textgeschichte der Regula S. Benedicti, 1898  - Textual history of Regula Benedicti.
• Die Geschichte der tironischen Noten bei Suetonius und Isidorus, 1901 (2 volumes)  - The history of Tironian notes from Suetonius and Isidorus.
• Jean-Baptiste Maugérard: ein Beitrag zur Bibliotheksgeschicthe, 1904  - Jean-Baptiste Maugérard, a contribution to library history.
• Bamberger Fragmente der vierten Dekade des Livius, 1906  - Bamberger fragments of the fourth decade of Livy.
• Nomina sacra : Versuch einer Geschichte der christlichen Kürzung, 1907  - Nomina sacra. Essay on the history of Christian abbreviations.
• Zur Paläographie und Handschriftenkunde, 1909 (edited by Franz Boll)  - On palaeography and manuscript studies.
• Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters, 1911 (edited by Franz Boll, Paul Lehmann)  - Introduction to Latin philology of the Middle Ages.
• Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen, 1909–1920 (3 volumes, edited by Franz Boll, Samuel Brandt)  - Lectures and essays.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Traube Mengarini Margarethe (Margherita) — Scienza a due voci. 2020-10-06. scienzaa2voci.unibo.it.
2. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009031250 Karolingische Dichtungen
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=1NVRfl4gCw0C&dq=%22Traube%2C+Ludwig%22+1861+Munich&pg=PA74 Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=h2QpDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Ludwig+Traube%22+Leukemia&pg=PA36 Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion
5. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Traube,Ludwig,1861-1907.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
6. http://www.idref.fr/070112592 IDREF.fr