Яффе, Филипп

— выдающийся историк, род. в Шверзенце (Познань) в 1819 г., ум. в Виртенберге, в 1870 г. Я. был сыном бедных родителей и служил в Берлине в банкирской конторе. В 1839 г. Я. поступил в Берлинский университет. Я. занимался...

Philipp Jaffé (February 17, 1819 – April 3, 1870) was a German historian and philologist. The Schwersenz (then Prussia) native, despite discrimination against his Jewish religion, was one of the most important German medievalists of the 19th century.

After graduating from the gymnasium at Posen in 1838 he went to Berlin, entering a banking-house. Two years later he abandoned commercial life...