Ludwig Traube (palaeographer)

Ludwig Traube (June 19, 1861 – May 19, 1907) was a German paleographer and held the first chair of Medieval Latin in Germany while at the University of Munich.

[1] Traube was born in Berlin, the son of a middle-class Jewish family, and studied at the universities of Munich and Greifswald.

He finished his habilitation in classical and medieval philology in 1888 with a part of his book on Carolingian poetry (Karolingische Dichtungen).

[2] In 1897 he became a member of the central management of Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

In 1902 he was appointed professor of Latin philology of the Middle Ages at Munich.