Education
He studied law, classical philology, and history, among other things, at Bonn and Berlin under Johann Wilhelm Löbell (1786–1863), Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm Wattenbach.
educationist historian university professor
He studied law, classical philology, and history, among other things, at Bonn and Berlin under Johann Wilhelm Löbell (1786–1863), Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm Wattenbach.
Ernst Ludwig Dümmler (2 January 1830 – 11 September 1902) was a German historian. His doctorate dissertation, De Arnulfo Francorum rege (Berlin, 1852), was a notable essay among historians. He entered the faculty at Halle in 1855, and started an historical Seminar.
In 1858 he became professor extraordinary, in 1866 full professor
In In 1888 he became president of the central board in Berlin. This was an official recognition of Dümmler"s leading position among German historians.
In 1875 he became a member of the revised committee directing the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, himself undertaking the direction of the section "Antiquitates".
