Wilhelm Levison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German historian
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Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Wilhelm Levison
- Wilhelm Levison (27 May 1876, Düsseldorf - 17 January 1947, Durham) was a German medievalist. He was well known as a contributor to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era.
- He also edited Wilhelm Wattenbach's Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter.
- In 1935 he was forced to retire from his professorship at Bonn University because of the Nuremberg Laws.
- He fled Nazi Germany in the spring of 1939, taking a position at Durham University.
- He delivered the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in 1943, and they were published as England and the Continent in the Eighth Century.
- He died during the preparation of Aus Rheinischer und Fränkischer Frühzeit (1948).
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