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Max Manitius (23 March 1858 - 21 September 1933) [1] was a German medievalist and Latin scholar.
Max Manitius, son of the Court Councillor and secretary in the Saxon Ministry of Justice Wilhelm Manitius (1808-1885), attended the Gymnasium in Leipzig and then studied history and antiquities at the University of Leipzig from 1877. In 1881 he received his doctorate from Wilhelm Arndt with a thesis on the Carolingian imperial annals, which dealt with the Annales Bertiniani, the Annales Laurissenses minores and the Annales Fuldenses. From 1883 to 1884 he was for a short time an "unskilled worker" (at that time a common term for scientific staff) at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), where he supported Ernst Dümmler in the edition of the second MGH Poetae volume. [2] In 1884 he started working as a teacher at the Noldensian Higher School for Girls in Dresden, which gave him enough time for further medieval research, with which he soon made a living. Still in 1884 he published a critical edition of an anonymous 9th century geographical writing, De situ orbis.
In 1889 Manitius published a complete representation of the 10th and 11th centuries under the title German History under the Saxon and Salian Emperors (911-1125). His special interest in the Christian-Latin poetry of the early Middle Ages culminated in 1891 in his literary-historical History of Christian-Latin poetry up to the middle of the 8th century. Manitius also published annotated translations of selected Latin poems, such as Archipoeta (1913), and in 1925 published a wide-ranging study of education, science and literature in the Occident from 800 to 1100.
Manitius owes its special and lasting significance in Medieval Studies and Medieval Latin Philology to its more than 2,800-page history of medieval Latin literature, which was published in three volumes in 1911, 1923 and 1931 as part of Section IX of the Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft (Handbook of Classical Studies) and is the only volume of the company not to have been revised since then. The Munich philologist and MGH central director Ludwig Traube († 1907) had originally been engaged to prepare this volume, but he had allowed himself to be released from his contract and instead recommended Manitius to private scholars. The lasting value of Manitius' detailed and detailed presentation is based on his ability to describe even complicated facts in a way that can be understood by all. [3]
His last major work Manuscripts of ancient authors in medieval library catalogues was published posthumously in 1935 by his son Karl Manitius (1899-1979), who was also a medieval historian and philologist and worked as a freelancer for the MGH after 1949.
The estate of Max Manitius is now in the archives of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke, German philologist, was born in Zahrensdorf, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of a country pastor.
The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of parts of Northwestern, Central and Southern European history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. Despite the name, the series covers important sources for the history of many countries besides Germany, since the Society for the Publication of Sources on Germanic Affairs of the Middle Ages has included documents from many other areas subjected to the influence of Germanic tribes or rulers. The editor from 1826 until 1874 was Georg Heinrich Pertz (1795–1876); in 1875 he was succeeded by Georg Waitz (1813–1886).
Ernst Ludwig Dümmler was a German historian.
Hucbald was a Benedictine monk active as a music theorist, poet, composer, teacher, and hagiographer. He was long associated with Saint-Amand Abbey, so is often known as Hucbald of St Amand. Deeply influenced by Boethius' De Institutione Musica, Hucbald's (De) Musica, formerly known as De harmonica institutione, aims to reconcile ancient Greek music theory and the contemporary practice of Gregorian chant with the use of many notated examples. Among the leading music theorists of the Carolingian era, he was likely a near contemporary of Aurelian of Réôme, the unknown author of the Musica enchiriadis, and the anonymous authors of other music theory texts Commemoratio brevis, Alia musica, and De modis.
Carl Erdmann was a German historian who specialized in medieval political and intellectual history. He is noted in particular for his study of the origins of the idea of crusading in medieval Latin Christendom, as well as his work on letter collections and correspondence among secular and ecclesiastical elites in the eleventh century. He is often mentioned alongside Percy Ernst Schramm and Ernst H. Kantorowicz as one of the most influential and important German scholars of medieval political culture in the twentieth century. His promising and remarkably prolific career was cut short by his death in the German army at the end of World War II.
Eigil was the fourth abbot of Fulda. He was the nephew and biographer of the abbey's founder and first abbot Saint Sturm. We know about Eigil primarily from the Latin Life that the monk and teacher of Fulda, Candidus Bruun composed about him after his death.
The anonymous Saxon poet known as Poeta Saxo, who composed the medieval Latin Annales de gestis Caroli magni imperatoris libri quinque was probably a monk of Saint Gall or possibly Corvey. His Annales is one of the earliest poetic treatments of annalistic material and one of the earliest historical works to concentrate on Saxony. It is considered characteristic of the dénouement of the Carolingian Renaissance.
Theodor von Sickel was a German-Austrian historian born in Aken, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia. He specialized in early European medieval history, and is considered to be the founder of modern diplomatics.
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Bernhard Bischoff was a German historian, paleographer, and philologist; he was born in Altendorf, and he died in Munich.
Karl Manitius was a German historian.
Anselm of Besate was an 11th-century churchman and rhetorician.
The Sächsische Weltchronik is a universal history written in German prose. It is not clear in which regional form of German the original was written. Of the twenty-four surviving manuscripts, ten are in Low German, nine in High German and five in Central German. These can be divided into three recensions, the earliest dated to 1229 and the latest to 1277.
Paul Lehmann was a German paleographer and philologist.
Rudolf Schieffer was a German historian specializing in medieval history. From 1994 to 2012 he was president of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
Paul Scheffer-Boichorst was a German historian of the Middle Ages.
The Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters is a historical journal on history between 400 CE and 1500 CE, published by the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), the German institute for study of the Middle Ages. It numbers its volumes from 1937, named the Deutsches Archiv für Geschichte des Mittelalters from volume 7 (1944). Its forerunners were the twelve-volume 1820-1874 Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde and the fifty-volume 1876-1935 Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde. It has been published in Weimar then Cologne by Böhlau Verlag, its current publisher, and is the oldest German-language journal on medieval history.
Michael Tangl was an Austrian scholar of history and diplomatics, and one of the main editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, for whom he published the correspondence of Saint Boniface, an edition still used by scholars and considered the definitive edition.
Christian Johann Christoph Schreiber was a German theologian, philologist, philosopher, and poet. He was also the Superintendent of the dioceses of Lengsfeld and Dermbach. He was connected in friendship or correspondence to writers and philosophers of his time, and published poetry, sermons, historical and philosophical works.
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