CodeDS/UK/1616
Dates14/10/1894-21/11/1970
Person NameSchramm; Percy Ernst (14/10/1894-21/11/1970); Prof. Dr. phil.
SurnameSchramm
ForenamesPercy Ernst
TitleProf. Dr. phil.
ActivityHistorian. Lecturert at Warburg Institute (1923-); Assistant Professor at University Göttingen (1929-); Benjamin D. Shreve Fellow at Princeton University (1932-33); during the war personal diarist to Adolf Hitler and the German General Staff (publications about Hitler after thye war); Lecturer at the University of Munich (1954); Professor at University Göttingen.
RelationshipsSon of Max Schramm and Olga Schramm, née O'Swald; brother of Martha and Ruth; married Ehrengard, née von Thadden; father of Franz?
HistoryStudied history in Hamburg and Heidelberg; doctoral dissertation; habilitation (ca. 1929).
SourceSources: Neugebauer, Otto, Sense or Nonsense in Scientific Jargon, in: Journal of the Courtauld and Warburg Insititutes 23 (1960), pp. 175-6; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art, in: Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 73; Cantor, Norman F., The Nazi Twins: Percy Ernst Schramm and Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz., in: Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century. New York 1991, pp. 79-117; Bak, János, Percy Ernst Schramm (1894-1970), in: Damico, Helen and Zavadil, Joseph B., ed. Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline. vol. 1. New York 1995, pp. 247-262; Bak, János M. "Percy Ernst Schramm." in, Boyd, Kelly, ed. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. vol. 2, Chicago 1999, p.1067; [obituary:] "Dr. Percy Ernst Schramm Dead; Published Nazi Command Diary." New York Times November 14, 1970, p. 31.

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