Felix Liebermann
{{Short description|Jewish German historian (1851–1925)}}
Felix Liebermann (20 July 1851 – 7 October 1925) was a German historian, who is celebrated for his scholarly contributions to the study of medieval English history, particularly that of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law.
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Life
Felix Liebermann was born in 1851 in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia. He came from a Jewish-German family; his older brother was the painter Max Liebermann. Felix first pursued a career in banking and the textile industry, living for a time in Manchester, England. In 1873, he moved to Göttingen, Germany, to study early English history. Georg Waitz and Reinhold Pauli became his mentors. After his promotion in 1875 on the "Dialogue of the Exchequer" ({{lang|la|Dialogus de Scaccario}}), he rapidly earned a name for himself as a medievalist with a special focus on England. He served as an editor with the {{lang|la|Monumenta Germaniae Historica}} from 1877{{ndash}}1885. In 1896, he received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and later, the title of professor of history from the Prussian minister of justice Robert Bosse. He died in a car accident in Berlin in 1925.
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Works
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- 1875. Dialogus de Scaccario. Dissertation.
- 1879. Ungedruckte anglo-normannische Geschichtsquellen. Strasbourg.
- {{citation |editor-last=Liebermann |editor-first=Felix |editor-link=Felix Liebermann |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_monumenta-germaniae-historica_1888_28/mode/2up |title=Monumenta Germaniae Historica... |language=la |trans-title=Historical Monuments of Germany... |series=Scriptorum, Vol. XXVIII: Ex Rerum Anglicarum Scriptoribus Saeculi XIII. [Authors, Vol. XXVIII: Excerpts from English Authors of the 13th Century] |date=1888 |location=Hanover |publisher=Hahn |display-editors=0 }}.
- 1889. Die Heiligen Englands: Angelsächsisch und lateinisch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T40yeRdJfxIC&oe=UTF-8 Available from Google Books]
- 1892. Quadripartitus. Ein englisches Rechtsbuch von 1114. Halle. PDF available from Google Books, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t-cKAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8 here] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=ibY0AAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8 here] (US only) and from the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/quadripartitusei00liebuoft here]
- 1893. Consiliatio Cnuti. Eine Übertragung angelsächsischer Gesetze aus dem zwölften Jahrhundert. Halle.
- 1894. Über Pseudo-Cnuts Constitutiones de foresta. Halle.
- 1894. Über die Leges Anglorum saeculo XIII, ineunte Londoniis collectae. Halle.
- 1896. Über die Leges Edwardi Confessoris. Halle.
- 1901. Über das englische rechtsbuch Leges Henrici. [https://archive.org/details/ueberdasenglisch00liebuoft PDF available from the Internet Archive]
- 1903-1916. Gesetze der Angelsachsen. 3 vols. Halle. Standard edition, translation, dictionary and glossary of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon laws. Available from the Internet Archive:
- [https://archive.org/details/diegesetzederang01liebuoft vol. 1 (edition and translation)]
- [https://archive.org/details/diegesetzederang02liebuoft vol. 2]. Or separately, [https://archive.org/details/p1diegesetzedera02greauoft first half (dictionary)] and [https://archive.org/details/p2diegesetzedera02greauoft second half (glossary)]
- [https://archive.org/details/diegesetzederang03liebuoft vol. 3 (commentary)]
- 1913. The national assembly in the Anglo-Saxon period. Halle. [https://archive.org/details/nationalassembly00liebuoft Internet Archive]
Further reading
- Dammery, Richard J. "Editing the Anglo-Saxon Laws: Felix Liebermann and Beyond." The Editing of Old English, ed. D. G. Scragg and Paul E. Szarmach. Cambridge, 1994. pp. 251–61.
- Davis, H.W.C. "Felix Liebermann." English Historical Review 41 (1926). 91 ff.
- Hazeltine, H. D. "Felix Liebermann, 1851-1925." Proceedings of the British Academy 24 (1938): 319–60.
- Heymann, Ernst. "Felix Liebermann." Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung 46 (1926): xxiii-xxxix.
- Tout, Thomas Frederick. "Felix Liebermann (1851-1925)." History NS 10 (1926): 311–19.
- Scheer, Regina. Wir sind die Liebermanns. Die Geschichte einer Familie. Berlin: Propyläen, 2006. {{ISBN|3-549-07288-0}}.
External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Felix Liebermann}}
- [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Felix_Liebermann.jpg&filetimestamp=20080309120849 Portrait]
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