Paul Fridolin Kehr

Paul Fridolin Kehr (28 December 1860, Waltershausen – 9 November 1944) was a German historian and archivist.

In 1893 he was appointed professor of history and auxiliary sciences at the University of Marburg, and two years later, procured the same title at the University of Göttingen (from 1895).

In 1903 he was named director of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome, and in 1915 became general director of the Prussian State Archives. During the same year, he became chairman of the central directorate of "Monumenta Germaniae Historica", as well as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for German History.^[1]

Publications

Kehr is best known for documentary research on the Papacy and of German imperial history. He was editor or co-editor of the following:

• Päpstlichen Urkunden und Regesten aus den Jahren 1358-78 (two volumes 1886-1889) - Papal documents and summaries from the years 1358-78.
• Die Urkunden Otto III (1889) - The documents of Otto III.
• Regesta Pontificum Romanorum ("Italia pontifica" seven volumes, Berlin 1906 to 1925)-- documents issued by the papacy relevant to Italian churches
• Germania sacra (Volume 1, Berlin 1929).^[2]

References

1. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Akademiebibliothek
2. Orden Pour Le Merite (short biography)

External links

• Works by or about Paul Fridolin Kehr at Internet Archive