Georg von Laubmann


Georg von Laubmann was a German philologist and librarian.

Biography

Von Laubmann was born in Hof, Bavaria. From 1861 to 1866 he studied classical philology at the universities of Munich and Bonn, and in 1875 was named senior librarian at the university library in Würzburg. From 1882 to 1909 he was director of the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
He received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library. He died in Munich.

Published works

Laubmann was also the author of several articles in the "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie".