Wilhelm Levison [SEP] place of birth
Wilhelm Levison
Wilhelm Levison (27 May 1876, Düsseldorf - 17 January 1947, Durham) was a German medievalist.
He was well known as a contributor to "Monumenta Germaniae Historica", especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wilhelm Wattenbach's "Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter". In 1935 he was forced to retire from his professorship at Bonn University because of the Nuremberg Laws. He fled Nazi Germany in the spring of 1939, taking a position at Durham University. He delivered the
the cloak, "amphiboles", which was worn by Saint Alban.
Wilhelm Levison noted that the story of the name, which goes back to a 5th-century "Passio Albani", is composed of borrowings from other lives of saints and it has, in his words, "no place in the ranks of "Acta martyrum sincera"; it is a legendary tale..."
Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Geoffrey repeated the story of Alban's martyrdom as given by Bede in his famous "Historia Regum Britanniae