Background
Johann Martin Lappenberg was born at Hamburg, where his father, Valentin Anton Lappenberg (1759–1819), held an official position.
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Johann Martin Lappenberg was born at Hamburg, where his father, Valentin Anton Lappenberg (1759–1819), held an official position.
Johann Martin Lappenberg attended the Johanneum and the Akademisches Gymnasium of Hamburg. He continued to study history in London, at Frederick William University of Berlin and at Göttingen, where he graduated as doctor of laws in 1816.
In 1820 Johann Martin Lappenberg was sent by the Hamburg senate as minister resident to the Prussian court in Berlin. In 1823 he became keeper of the Hamburg archives. In this office, he had the fullest opportunities for the laborious and critical research work upon which rests his reputation.
Johann Martin Lappenberg was in this office until 1863, when a serious eye problem compelled him to resign. In 1850 he represented Hamburg in the German parliament at Frankfurt, and he died at Hamburg.
Lappenberg's most important work is his Geschichte von England, which deals with the history of England from the earliest times to 1154, and was published in two volumes at Hamburg in 1834-1837. It has been translated into English by B. Thorpe as History of England under the Anglo-Saxon ICings (London 1845, and again 1881), and History of England under the Norman Kings (Oxford, 1857), and has been continued in three additional volumes from 1154 to 1509 by R. Pauli. His other works deal mainly with the history of Hamburg, and include Hamburgische Chroniken in Nieder- sdchsischer Sprache (Hamburg, 1852 - 1861); Geschichlsquellen des Erzstiftes und der Stadt Bremen (Bremen, 1841); Hamburgisches Urkundenbuch (Hamburg, 1842); Urkundliche Geschichte des Hansischen Stahlhofes zu London (Hamburg, 1851); Hamburgische Rechtsalterthiimer (Hamburg, 1845); and Urkundliche Geschichte des Ursprunges der deutschen Harise (Hamburg, 1830), a continuation of the work of G. F. Sartorius. For the Monu- menta Germaniae hisiorica he edited the Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, the Gesla Hammenburgensis ecclesiae pontificum of Adam of Bremen and the Chronica Slavorum of Helmold, with its continuation by Arnold of Liibeck. Lappenberg, who was a member of numerous learned societies in Europe, wrote many other historical works.
Russian Academy of Sciences.
Johann Lappenberg was born at Hamburg, where his father, Valentin Anton Lappenberg, held an official position.
