Ludwig Geiger

Ludwig Geiger
Born	Lazarus Abraham Geiger (1848-06-05)5 June 1848 Breslau, Silesia, Prussia
Died	9 February 1919(1919-02-09) (aged 70) Berlin, Prussia, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Historian
Spouse	Martha Stettiner
Children	Artur Geiger Dora Geiger Ilse Geiger Edith Geiger Emilie Geiger
Parent(s)	Abraham Geiger and Emilie Oppenheim
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Ludwig Geiger (born Lazarus Abraham Geiger, also called Ludwig Moritz Philipp Geiger; 5 June 1848 – 9 February 1919) was a German author and historian.

Life

Ludwig Geiger was born at Breslau, Silesia, a son of Abraham Geiger. After study at Heidelberg, Göttingen, and Bonn, he became docent in history at Berlin in 1873 and in 1880 was appointed to a chair of modern history there.

Geiger's more important researches have been concerned with the history of humanism, to which he contributed such studies as Nikolaus Ellenbog, ein Humanist und Theolog des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts (1870); Johann Reuchlin, sein Leben und seine Werke (1871); Petrarca (1874), an examination of Petrarch's significance as author and scholar; and Renaissance und Humanismus in Italien und Deutschland (1882). He also revised Jakob Burckhardt's Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (seventh edition, two volumes, Leipzig, 1899).

In 1880, Geiger began the publication of the Goethe-Jahrbuch, and from 1886–1892 was proprietor and an editor of the Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland (five volumes), in connection with which subject he published Das Studium der hebräischen Sprache in Deutschland vom Ende des 15ten bis zur Mitte des 16ten Jahrhunderts (1870) and Geschichte der Juden in Berlin (1871).

Works

Geiger wrote:

• Vorträge und Versuche (1890);
• Berlin, 1688–1840 (1893–1895);
• Das junge Deutschland und die preussische Zensur (1900);
• Bettina von Arnim und Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1902);
• Aus Chamissos Frühzeit (1905);
• Goethe und Zelters Briefwechsel (1905);
• Chamissos Leben (1907);
• Chamissos Werke (1907);
• Der Briefwechsel Goethes mit Humboldt (1908);
• Charlotte von Schiller (1908).

References

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Geiger, Abraham" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 551.; is discussed near the end of this article on his father.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Geiger, Ludwig". New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 177.

External links

• Digitized works by Ludwig Geiger at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York