Max Lehmann (historian)

Max Lehmann (19 May 1845 – 8 October 1929) was a German historian, born in Berlin and educated at Königsberg, Bonn, and Berlin.

In 1879 Lehmann began to teach in the Berlin Military Academy, and in 1887 was made a member of the Prussian Academy; a year later he went to Marburg as professor of history. In 1892 he was appointed to a like chair at Leipzig and in 1893 became professor of medieval and modern history at Göttingen. Famous Polish historian Szymon Askenazy wrote doctoral dissertation under Lehmann's supervision (1894).

Works

• Das Aufgebot zur Heerfahrt Ottos II nach Italien (1869)
• Der Krieg von 1870 bis zur Einschliessung von Metz (1873)
• Knesebeck und Schon: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Freiheitskriege (1875)
• Stein, Scharnhorst und Schön (1877)
• Scharnhorst (1886–87), which won a prize
• Friedrich der Grosse (1894)
• Freiherr von Stein (1902–05), which won the Wedekind prize
• Historische Aufsätze und Reden (1911)
• Die Erhebung von 1813 (1913)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1915). "Lehmann, Max". New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 13 (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 741.