Enciclopedia Cattolica

TRAUBE, LUDWIG

Volume XII · p. 300 · 1954

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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

TRAUBE, LUDWIG. - Philologist, medievalist, and paleographer among the most distinguished, b. in Berlin on 9 June 1861, d. in Munich on 19 May 1907.

Scholar and university teacher. His work in the field of paleography is particularly significant for the new direction he imparted and for the fundamental contributions he made. In addition to his philological writings on classical Latin authors, special mention must be made of: *Lehre und Geschichte der Abkürzungen* (1809), in which the history of abbreviations is traced for the first time; *Paläographische Anzeigen* I and II (1900), directed against the outdated methodology of paleographic studies; *Perrona Scotorum* (1900), a fundamental study of that scriptorium and of Irish script; *Die Geschichte der tironischen Noten* (1901); *Nomina sacra* (1907), examined from both a philological and a paleographic standpoint; *Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen* (1909, 1911, 1920), edited by F. Boll, P. Lehmann, and S. Brandt, a posthumous collection of his lectures on paleography and of some of the monographs mentioned above.

BIBL.: A biographical profile of T., written by his sister M. Traubemengarini, is published in *Nomina sacra*, Munich 1907, pp. 1–XXI; fundamental is the *Biographische Einleitung* by F. Boll, published as an introduction to Vol. I of *Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen*, Munich 1909, with a complete bibliography of his writings. Cf. also: H. Bresslau, L. T., in *Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde*, 33 (1908), pp. 539 ff.; G. Bonelli, L. T. e gli studi paleografici, in *Studi medievali*, 4 (1912–13), pp. 1–64; E. Monaci, *Commercio* di L. T., in *Rendiconti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di scienze morali*, 5th ser., 16 (1907), pp. 345–61, with the bibliography of his writings compiled by P. Lehmann.