The New International Encyclopædia/Lehmann, Max

LEHMANN, Max (1845—). A German historian, born in Berlin and educated at Königsberg, Bonn, and Berlin. In 1879 he began to teach in the Berlin Military Academy; in 1887 was made a member of the Prussian Academy, and a year later went to Marlburg as professor of history. In 1892 he was appointed to a like chair at Leipzig, and in 1903 became professor of mediæval and modern history at Göttingen. He wrote: Das Aufgebot zur Heerfahrt Ottos II. nach Italien (1869); Der Krieg von 1870 bis zur Einschliessung von Metz (1873); Knesebeck und Schön: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Freiheitskriege (1875); Stein, Scharnhorst und Schön (1877); the excellent biography Scharnhorst (1886-87); and Friedrich der Grosse (1894).