Ludwig Traube (palaeographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludwig Traube (palaeographer)

German classical philologist

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1861

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 19-May-1907

Profession: university teacher, linguist, classical philologist, palaeographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ludwig Traube (June 19, 1861 – May 19, 1907) was a paleographer and held the first chair of Medieval Latin in Germany (at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).
He was a son of the physician Ludwig Traube (1818-1876)., 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).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.
In 1905 he discovered that he had leukemia, from which he died two years later.