Wilhelm Levison

Wilhelm Levison (27 May 1876, Düsseldorf - 17 January 1947, Durham) was a German medievalist. He was well known as a contributor to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wilhelm Wattenbach's Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter. In 1935 he was forced to retire from his professorship at Bonn University because of the Nuremberg Laws. He fled Nazi Germany in the spring of 1939, to Durham University. He was Ford's Lecturer in the University of Oxford for the academic year 1942/3, and published his lectures as England and the Continent in the Eighth Century (1946). He died during the preparation of Aus Rheinischer und Fränkischer Frühzeit (1948).

Notable students

Theodor Schieffer, who dedicated Winfrid-Bonifatius und die Grundlegung Europas to Levison^[1]

References

^ Schieffer, Theodor (1972). Winfrid-Bonifatius und die Grundlegung Europas. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. p. v. ISBN 3543060652.

External links

The Levison papers at Durham University

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Name	Levison, Wilhelm
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Date of birth	27 May 1876
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Date of death	17 January 1947
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