Philipp Jaffé
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Philipp Jaffé | |
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| Born | 17 February 1819 |
| Died | 3 April 1870(aged 51) Wittenberge,Prussia |
| Known for | Regesta Pontificum Romanorum |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Doctoral advisor | Leopold von Ranke |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History and philology |
| Institutions | Humboldt University of Berlin |
Philipp Jaffé(17 February 1819 – 3 April 1870) was a German historian and philologist. He was one of the most important Germanmedievalistsof the 19th century.[1]
Biography and career[edit]
After graduating from the gymnasium atPosenin 1838 he went toBerlin,entering a banking-house. Two years later he abandoned commercial life and studied atHumboldt University of Berlin(Ph.D. 1844). Seven years later appeared his great work,RegestaPontificum Romanorum ab Condita Ecclesia ad Annum p. Ch. n. 1198,containing 11,000 papal documents, (Berlin, 1851. 2nd ed. byLöwenfeld,Kaltenbrunner,andEwald.Leipzig, 1885–88). This work made him well known, but he had still to earn a livelihood; he therefore again entered the university, this time as a student of medicine, at Berlin and later atVienna.Graduating asM.D.from Berlin in 1853, he engaged in practise in that city for a year, and then became one of the editors of theMonumenta Germaniae Historica.This position he resigned in 1863, his chief work having been vols. xii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, and xx of theScriptores.
In 1862 Jaffé was appointed assistant professor of history at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he lectured onLatinpaleographyandRomanand medievalchronology.In 1868 he became aChristian.During the last year of his life he suffered fromdeliriumpersecutionis.
Jaffé wrote, in addition to the above-mentioned works,Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches unter Lothar dem Sachsen,Berlin, 1843;Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches unter Konrad III.Hanover, 1845; andBibliotheca Rerum Germanicarum,ib. 1864–1871. The latter series contained editions of the correspondence andvitaeofSaint Boniface;his edition of theBoniface correspondencewas praised as the first critical edition of the letters,[2]and formed the basis for subsequent translations and editions of the letters, including that byGeorg Pfahler.[3]Jaffé furthermore collaborated withWilhelm Wattenbachin editing theEcclesiæ Metropolitanæ Coloniensis Codices,which was published (Berlin, 1879) by Wattenbach after Jaffé's death. Jaffé committed suicide atWittenbergeon 3 April 1870.
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References[edit]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Singer, Isidore;et al., eds. (1901–1906)."Jaffe (Joffe)".The Jewish Encyclopedia.New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- ^Schwartz, Daniel (7 December 2016)."Between Two Worlds, Belonging to Neither".Tablet.Retrieved7 December2016.
- ^"Rev. ofBibliotheca rerum Germanicarum edidit Philippus Jaffe".Historische Zeitschrift.16(2): 423–27. 1866.
- ^Pfahler, Georg (1882).Die bonifatianische Briefsammlung: chronologisch geordnet und nach ihrem wesentlichen Inhalt mitgetheilt.Heilbronn: M. Schell. pp. vii–viii.
