Max Lehmann was a German

Germany

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 historian

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, born in Berlin

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 and educated at Königsberg

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, Bonn

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, and Berlin

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In 1879 Lehmann began to teach in the Berlin Military Academy, and in 1887 was made a member of the Prussian Academy

Preußische Kriegsakademie

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; a year later he went to Marburg

Marburg

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 as professor

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 of history. In 1892 he was appointed to a like chair at Leipzig

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 and in 1893 became professor of mediæval and modern history at Göttingen

Göttingen

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Works

• Das Aufgebot zur Heerfahrt Ottos II nach Italien (1869)
• Der Krieg von 1870 bis zur Einschliessung von Metz (1873)
• Knesebeck und Schon: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Freiheitskriege (1875)
• Stein, Scharnhorst und Schön (1877)
• Scharnhorst (1886-87), which won a prize
• Friedrich der Grosse (1894)
• Freiherr von Stein (1902-05), which won the Wedekind prize
• Historische Aufsätze und Reden (1911)
• Die Erhebung von 1813 (1913)

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