Traube, Ludwic - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XII, p. 300

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

TRAUBE, LUDWIC. - Philologist, medievalist, and one of the most eminent palaeographers, b. in Berlin on 9 June 1861, d. in Munich on 19 May 1907.

Scholar and university lecturer. His work in the palaeographical field is of particular importance because of the new direction he gave it and the fundamental contributions he made. Besides his philological writings on classical Latin authors, the following deserve special mention: Lehre und Geschichte der Abkürzungen (1899), in which the history of abbreviations is outlined for the first time; Paläographische Anzeigen I and II (1900), directed against the outdated methodology of palaeographical studies; Perrona Scottorum (1900), a fundamental study of that scribal centre and of Irish script; Die Geschichte der tiranischen Noten (1901); Nomina sacra (1907), from the dual philological and palaeographical standpoint; Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen (1909, 1911, 1920), edited by F. Boll, P. Lehmann, and S. Brandt, a posthumous collection of his lectures on palaeography and of some of the above-mentioned monographs.

BIBL.: a biographical sketch of T., by his sister M. Traube-Mengarini, was published in Nomina sacra, Monaco 1907, pp. 1-xiii; fundamental is the Biograph. Einleitung by F. Boll, published as an introduction to vol. I of Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen, Monaco 1909, with the complete bibliography of his writings. Cf. also: H. Breslau, L. T., in Neues Arch. der Gesch. f. dlt. deutsche Geschichtskunde, 33 (1908), p. 539 ff.; G. Bonelli, L. T. e gli studi paleografici, in Studi mediev., 4 (1912-13), pp. 1-64; E. Monaci, Commemoraz. di L. T., in Rendic. Accad. naz. dei Lincei, Cl. science morali, 5ª serie, 16 (1907), pp. 245-61, with the bibliography of his writings edited by P. Lehmann. Giannetto Avanzi