Paul Lehmann

Paul Lehmann was a German paleographer and philologist.

Biography

Paul Lehmann was the son of businessman Gustav Lehmann and his wife Louisa Meyer. After attending school in his hometown, Lehmann started studying at the University of Göttingen. A successor to Ludwig [Traube (palaeographer)|Ludwig Traube], Paul Lehmann began as docent at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1911 and became professor of medieval Latin philology there in 1917. Author of a dissertation on Franciscus Modius and a Habilitationsschrift on Johannes Sichardus, he made numerous contributions to the Sitzungsberichte der bayerischen Akademie. He is best known for Parodie im Mittelalter. He also authored Pseudo-Antike Literatur des Mittelalters and published Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz. Lehmann assisted Max Manitius in the preparation of the third volume of the Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters.
He was named a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval [Academy of America] in 1926, as well as fellow of numerous other European academies. A Festschrift entitled Liber Floridus, in honor of his sixty-fifth birthday, was published in 1950.

Publications

Franciscus Modius 1908Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz Die Parodie im Mittelalter Das literarische Bild Karls des Großen vornehmlich im lateinischen Schrifttum des Mittelalters Geschichte der Fuggerbibliotheken Pseudoantike Literatur Gesta Ernesti ducis Judas Ischarioth

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