Professor Philipp Jaffe

1819 - 1870  (51 years)

• Name	Philipp Jaffe
  Prefix	Professor
  Born	17 Feb 1819	Schwersenz, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Philipp Jaffe German historian and philologist; born at Schwersenz, province of Posen, Germany, Feb. 17, 1819; committed suicide at Wittenberg April 3, 1870. After graduating from the gymnasium at Posen in 1838 he went to Berlin, entering a banking-house. Two years later he abandoned commercial life and studied at Berlin University(Ph.D. 1844). Seven years later appeared his great work, "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ab Condita Ecclesia ad Annum p. Ch. n. 1198," containing 11,000 papal documents, Berlin, 1851 (2d ed. by L?wenfeld, Kaltenbrunner, and Ewald, Leipsic, 1885-88). This work made him well known, but he had still to earn a livelihood; he therefore again entered the university, this time as a student of medicine, at Berlin and later at Vienna. Graduating as M.D. from Berlin in 1853, he engaged in practise in that city for a year, and then became one of the editors of the "Monumenta Germani? Historica." This position he resigned in 1863, his chief work having been vols.xii., xvi., xvii., xviii., xix., and xx. of the "Scriptores." In 1862 Jaffe was appointed assistant professor of history at Berlin University, where he lectured on Latin paleography and Roman and medieval chronology. In 1868 he became a Christian. During the last year of his life he suffered from delirium persecutionis. Jaff? wrote, in addition to the above-mentioned works, "Gesch. des Deutschen Reiches Unter Lothar dem Sachsen," Berlin, 1843; "Gesch. des Deutschen Reiches Unter Konrad III." Hanover, 1845; and "Bibliotheca Rerum Germanicarum," ib. 1864-71. Jaffe furthermore collaborated with Wattenbach in editing the "Ecclesi? Metropolitan? Coloniensis Codices," which was published (Berlin, 1879) by Wattenbach after Jaffe's death. —————— https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz36831.html#ndbcontent
  Hebrew Birth	22 Shv 5579
  Hebrew Death	2 Nis 5630
  Occupation	German historian and philologist
  Residence	Schwersenz, Germany
  Residence	Wittenberge, Germany
  Died	3 Apr 1870	Wittenberge, Germany
  	Suicide
  Person ID	I10139	Blank Family
  Last Modified	7 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Elias Marcus Jaffe,   b. 1794, Posen, Germany ,   d. 1866, Berlin, Germany  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Mirel Lipschitz,   b. 1803,   d. 1900, Berlin, Germany  (Age 97 years)
  Family ID	F7182	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Documents		Six jaffe letters from PJ to parents, 'with sticky notes by DRS summarizing contents
  		Six jaffe letters from PJ to parents, 'with sticky notes by DRS summarizing contents