LIEBERMANN (Professor Felix, 1851-1925, German Historian of the sources of English Law pre- and post-Conquest)

Autograph Postcard Signed in English to Reginald Lane Poole, (1857-1939, Editor of the English Historical Review, Lecturer in Diplomatic at Oxford, 1896-1927), sending him "an extract from Zimmer's contribution to an encyclopaedia of many volumes which most likely would escape English readers. The extract is a lengthy one, but in small type would hardly fill one page. If you will print it, its English wants thoroughly to be corrected. If not please to return it ...", 10 Benderstraße, Berlin, postmarked 26th June, year not legible

Liebermann worked in his father's business, dealing in textiles and banking, which took him to Manchester and London. After four years he took up the study of History at Berlin and Göttingen - his dissertation being on the English 'Dialogus de Scaccario'. Thereafter the study of the sources of English law became his life's work. Of independent means, he held no Professorship, but with his wife Cäcilie made his house a centre for students. His writings are in the best 'Monumenta' tradition of exact scholarship, based on all known manuscripts. They were of the greatest value to students of literature and philology as well as history, and extended to the English possessions in France. They are also remarkable in that Liebermann had no formal legal training. He died in a car accident in Berlin.

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