Engelbert Mühlbacher
Engelbert Mühlbacher (4 October 1843 – 17 July 1903) was an Austrian historian.
Born in
In 1872 he was studying history under
In 1892 Mühlbacher was entrusted with the editing of the Carolingian charters for the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica. At the same time it became necessary to bring out a new edition of his Carolingian "Regesta". The two works proved of mutual assistance. He was able to see only the first part of each work through the press, but left considerable material for the use of his successors. No other German scholar was so well qualified to write the Deutsche Geschichte unter den Karolingern, which appeared in 1896. After 1879 Mühlbacher edited the
When Mühlbacher died in Vienna at age 59 of pneumonia, he left the almost completed manuscript of his edition of the charters of Pepin the Short, Carloman I and Charlemagne. This volume was published posthumously in 1906 (Die Urkunden Pippins, Karlmanns und Karls des Großen, MGH Diplomata Karolinorum I, book in digital form) and is the authoritative edition of the charters of these three kings until today.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Engelbert Mühlbacher". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Cites:
- Oswald Redlich, Obituary Engelbert Mühlbacher, in Mitteilungen des Institutes für österreichische Geschichtsforschung 25 (1904), pp. 201–207, with portrait.
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