Paul Fridolin Kehr
Paul Fridolin Kehr (28 December 1860, Waltershausen – 9 November 1944) was a German historian and archivist.
In 1893 he was appointed professor of German history at the University of Marburg, and two years later, procured the same title at the University of Göttingen (from 1895).
In 1903 he was named director of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome, and in 1915 became general director of the Prussian State Archives. During the same year, he became chairman of the central board of "Monumenta Germaniae Historica", as well as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for German History.[1]
Publications
Kehr is best known for documentary research on the Papacy and of German imperial history. He was editor or co-editor of the following:
- Päpstlichen Urkunden und Regesten aus den Jahren 1358-78 (two volumes 1886-1889) - Papal documents and summaries from the years 1358-78.
- Die Urkunden Otto III (1889) - The documents of Otto III.
- Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ("Italia pontifica" seven volumes, Berlin 1906 to 1925).
- Germania sacra (Volume 1, Berlin 1929).[2]