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{{Short description|Jewish German historian (1851–1925)}}
[[File:Felix Liebermann.jpg|thumb|Felix Liebermann.]]
'''Felix Liebermann''' (20 July 1851 – 7 October 1925) was a German historian, who is celebrated for his scholarly contributions to the study of medieval English history, particularly that of [[Anglo-Saxon law|Anglo-Saxon]] and [[Anglo-Norman law]].

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==Life==
Felix Liebermann was born in 1851 in [[Berlin]], then the capital of [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]]. He came from a [[Jews in Germany|Jewish-German]] family; his older brother was the painter [[Max Liebermann]]. Felix first pursued a career in banking and the textile industry, living for a time in [[Manchester]], England. In 1873, he moved to [[Göttingen]], [[German Empire|Germany]], to study early English history. [[Georg Waitz]] and [[Reinhold Pauli]] became his mentors. After his promotion in 1875 on the "[[Dialogue of the Exchequer]]" ({{lang|la|Dialogus de Scaccario}}), he rapidly earned a name for himself as a [[medievalist]] with a special focus on England. He served as an editor with the {{lang|la|[[Monumenta Germaniae Historica]]}} from 1877{{ndash}}1885. In 1896, he received honorary degrees from the [[University of Oxford|universities of Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] and later, the title of professor of history from the Prussian minister of justice Robert Bosse. He died in a car accident in Berlin in 1925.

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==Works==
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*1875. ''Dialogus de Scaccario''. Dissertation.
*1879. ''Ungedruckte anglo-normannische Geschichtsquellen''. Strasbourg.
* {{citation |editor-last=Liebermann |editor-first=Felix |editor-link=Felix Liebermann |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_monumenta-germaniae-historica_1888_28/mode/2up |title=Monumenta Germaniae Historica... |language=la |trans-title=Historical Monuments of Germany... |series=''Scriptorum'', Vol. XXVIII: ''Ex Rerum Anglicarum Scriptoribus Saeculi XIII.'' [''Authors'', Vol. XXVIII: ''Excerpts from English Authors of the 13th Century''] |date=1888 |location=Hanover |publisher=Hahn |display-editors=0 }}.
*1889. ''Die Heiligen Englands: Angelsächsisch und lateinisch''. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T40yeRdJfxIC&oe=UTF-8 Available from Google Books]
*1892. ''[[Quadripartitus]]. Ein englisches Rechtsbuch von 1114''. Halle. PDF available from Google Books, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t-cKAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8 here] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=ibY0AAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8 here] (US only) and from the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/quadripartitusei00liebuoft here]
*1893. ''Consiliatio Cnuti. Eine Übertragung angelsächsischer Gesetze aus dem zwölften Jahrhundert''. Halle.
*1894. ''Über Pseudo-Cnuts Constitutiones de foresta''. Halle.
*1894. ''Über die Leges Anglorum saeculo XIII, ineunte Londoniis collectae''. Halle.
*1896. ''Über die Leges Edwardi Confessoris''. Halle.
*1901. ''Über das englische rechtsbuch Leges Henrici''. [https://archive.org/details/ueberdasenglisch00liebuoft PDF available from the Internet Archive]
*1903-1916. ''Gesetze der Angelsachsen''. 3 vols. Halle. Standard edition, translation, dictionary and glossary of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon laws. Available from the Internet Archive:
**[https://archive.org/details/diegesetzederang01liebuoft vol. 1 (edition and translation)]
**[https://archive.org/details/diegesetzederang02liebuoft vol. 2]. Or separately, [https://archive.org/details/p1diegesetzedera02greauoft first half (dictionary)] and [https://archive.org/details/p2diegesetzedera02greauoft second half (glossary)]
**[https://archive.org/details/diegesetzederang03liebuoft vol. 3 (commentary)]
*1913. ''The national assembly in the Anglo-Saxon period''. Halle. [https://archive.org/details/nationalassembly00liebuoft Internet Archive]

==Further reading==
*Dammery, Richard J. "Editing the Anglo-Saxon Laws: Felix Liebermann and Beyond." ''The Editing of Old English'', ed. D. G. Scragg and Paul E. Szarmach. Cambridge, 1994. pp.&nbsp;251–61.
*Davis, H.W.C. "Felix Liebermann." ''[[English Historical Review]]'' 41 (1926). 91 ff.
*Hazeltine, H. D. "Felix Liebermann, 1851-1925." ''Proceedings of the British Academy'' 24 (1938): 319–60.
*Heymann, Ernst. "Felix Liebermann." ''Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung'' 46 (1926): xxiii-xxxix.
*Tout, Thomas Frederick. "Felix Liebermann (1851-1925)." ''History'' NS 10 (1926): 311–19.
*Scheer, Regina. ''Wir sind die Liebermanns. Die Geschichte einer Familie''. Berlin: Propyläen, 2006. {{ISBN|3-549-07288-0}}.

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Felix Liebermann}}
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Felix_Liebermann.jpg&filetimestamp=20080309120849 Portrait]

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