Franz Magnus Böhme

Franz Theodor Magnus Böhme (11 March 1827 in Willerstedt – 18 October 1898 in Dresden) was a German academic, musicologist, composer, folksong collector and writer on music history and folksong.

Inspired by the example of Ludwig Uhland and Ludwig Erk, he was an avid collector and publisher of folk tunes, and contributed greatly to the establishment of research into German folk music.

Böhme died in 1898 in Dresden, and was buried at the Trinitatisfriedhof (Holy Trinity cemetery).

[1] Having died in the former DDR, a great part of his legacy, in particular his manuscripts on the history of dance and folk songs (many of which remain unpublished to this day) passed to the former Institute for folk music research in Weimar.

These are now preserved in the University archive/Thuringian state music archive at Weimar (shelf-mark FMB).