German ancient historian and epigrapher (1856–1931)
Hermann Dessau (6 April 1856,
Frankfurt am Main – 12 April 1931,
Berlin) was a German
ancient historian and
epigrapher. He is noted for a key work of
textual criticism published in 1889 on the Historia Augusta, which uncovered reasons to believe that this surviving text of ancient Roman imperial history had been written under circumstances very different from those previously believed.
Geschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit. 2 vols. in 3 Teilbänden. Weidmann, Berlin, 1924–1930
Bibliography
Schmidt, Manfred G. (ed.). Hermann Dessau (1856-1931) zum 150. Geburtstag des Berliner Althistorikers und Epigraphikers (Berlin, Walter de Gryuter, 2009) (Beiträge eines Kolloquiums und wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz des Jubilars. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum / Auctarium s.n., 3).
References
^Dessau, Hermann In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957