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Feb 03, 1869 Bremen, Germany Died on 14 Feb 1936 (aged 67)
German historian of medieval age
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About Karl Hampe
- Karl Ludwig Hampe (3 February 1869 – 14 February 1936) was a German historian of the Middle Ages, particularly the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the High Middle Ages. Hampe was born in Bremen and graduated from Berlin in 1893.
- Following graduation, he spent five years as an employee of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae.
- In Bonn Hampe met his later wife Charlotte Rauff, daughter of Heidelberg geologist Hermann Rauff.
- On 2 March 1903 he married at the age of 34, Rauff (19 years old).
- They had four sons and three daughters.
- Among them architect Hermann Hampe and archaeologist Roland Hampe.
- In 1903 he was appointed to a professorship in medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg.
- In 1924/25 he served as university rector.
- Hampe remained at Heidelberg until 1933 when he refused to cooperate with the increasing pressure put on universities by the new Nazi-led government of Germany and resigned his professorship.
- He died in Heidelberg.
