Ernst Ludwig Dümmler was a German

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 historian

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The son of Ferdinand Dümmler (1777 – 1846), a Berlin bookseller, Ernst Ludwig was born in Berlin

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. He studied at Bonn

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 under Johann Wilhelm Löbell

Johann Wilhelm Löbell

-Biography:Löbell was a native of Berlin. He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin under Wolf and Böckh. He had entered the scholarly life against the wishes of his mother who wanted him to go into business. During the War of the Sixth Coalition , he served as a volunteer in a...

 (1786 – 1863), under Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke

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 and Wilhelm Wattenbach

Wilhelm Wattenbach

Wilhelm Wattenbach , was a German historian.He was born at Ranzau in Holstein. He studied philology at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin, and in 1843 he began to work upon the Monumenta Germaniae Historica...

, and his doctor's dissertation, De Arnulfo Francorum rege (Berlin, 1852), was a notable essay.

He entered the faculty at Halle in 1855, and started an historical Seminar. In 1858 he became professor extraordinary, in 1866 full professor. In 1875 he became a member of the revised committee directing the Monumenta Germaniae Historica

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, himself undertaking the direction of the section "Antiquitates". In 1888 he became president of the central board in Berlin. This was an official recognition of Dümmler's leading position among German historians.

In addition to numerous critical works and editions of texts, he published:

• Piligrim von Passau und des Erzbistum Lorch
  Lorch
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  (1854)
• Über die alteren Slawen in Dalmatien (1856)
• Das Formelbuch des Bischofs Salomo III von Konstanz (1857)
• Anseim der Peripatetiker (1872)

His great work was the Geschichte des ostfrankischen Reiches (Berlin, 1862-1865, Sn. 2 vols.; 2nd ed. 1887-1888, in 3 vols.). In conjunction with Wattenbach he completed the Monumenia Alcuiniana (Berlin, 1873), which had been begun by Philipp Jaffe

Philipp Jaffé

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, and with Rudolf Köpke

Rudolf Köpke

Rudolf Köpke was a German historian who was a native of Königsberg.From 1832 he studied theology in Berlin, but his interest changed to history under the influence of Leopold von Ranke...

 he wrote Kaiser Otto der Grosse (Leipzig, 1876).

He edited the first and second volumes of the "Poetae latini aevi Carolini" for the Monumenta Germaniae historica (Berlin, 1881-1884).

His son, Ferdinand Dümmler

Ferdinand Dümmler

Georg Ferdinand Dümmler was a German classical philologist and archaeologist who was a native of Halle an der Saale. He was the son of historian Ernst Ludwig Dümmler ....

 (1859-1896), an archaeologist and philologist, was professor at the University of Basel

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from 1890 until his death on 15 November 1896, aged 72.