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ERNST LUDWIG DUMMLER (1830-19o2)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERNST See also:LUDWIG See also:DUMMLER (1830-19o2)  , See also:German historian, the son of See also:Ferdinand See also:Dummler (1777-1846), a See also:Berlin bookseller, was See also:born in Berlin, on the 2nd of See also:January 183o . He studied at See also:Bonn under J . W . Lobell (1786-1863), under L. von See also:Ranke and W . See also:Wattenbach, and his See also:doctor's dissertation, De Arnulfo Francorum rege (Berlin, 1852), was a notable See also:essay . He entered the See also:faculty at See also:Halle in 1855, and started an See also:historical Seminar . In 1858 he became See also:professor extraordinary, in 1866 full professor . In 1875 he became a member of the revised See also:committee directing the Monumenta Germaniae historica, himself undertaking the direction of the See also:section Antiquitates, and in 1888 became See also:president of the central See also:board in Berlin . This was an See also:official recognition of Dummler's leading position among German historians . In addition to numerous See also:critical See also:works and See also:editions of texts, he published Piligrim von See also:Passau and das Erzbistum See also:Lorch (1854), Ober See also:die dlteren Slawen in Dalmatien (1856), Das Formelbuch See also:des Bischofs Salomo III. von Konstanz (1857) and See also:Anselm der Peripatetiker (1872) . But his See also:great See also:work was the Geschichte des ostfrankischen Reiches (Berlin, 1862-1865, in 2 vols.; 2nd ed . 1887-1888, in 3 vols.) .

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conjunction with Wattenbach he completed the Monumenta Alcuiniana (Berlin, 1873), which had been begun by Philipp Jaffe, and with R . Kopke he wrote Kaiser See also:Otto der See also:Grosse (See also:Leipzig, 1876) . He edited the first and second volumes of the Poetae See also:latini aevi Carolini for the Monumenta Germanise historica (Berlin, 1881-1884) . Dummler died in Berlin on the 11th of See also:September 1902 . His son, Ferdinand (1859-1896), who won some reputation as an archaeologist and philologist, was professor at the university of See also:Basel from 1890 until his See also:death on the 15th of See also:November 1896 .

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