Ludwig Schmidt

Ludwig Schmidt (18 July 1862 – 10 March 1944) was a German historian and librarian at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden. He is best known for his magnum opus, ''Die Geschichte der deutschen Stämme bis zum Ausgang der Völkerwanderung'' (1904-1918), which up to the present day remains the standard reference work on the history of the Germanic peoples in the Migration Period. Provided by Wikipedia