Karl Leyser

Professor
Karl Leyser
TD FBA
Born
Karl Joseph Leyser

(1920-10-24)24 October 1920
Düsseldorf, Germany
Died27 May 1992(1992-05-27) (aged 71)
NationalityGerman
British (from 1946)
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleChichele Professor of Medieval History
Spouse
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(m. 1962)​
Children4, including Ottoline
Academic background
Alma materSt Paul's School, London
Magdalen College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineEarly Middle Ages
Institutions

Karl Joseph Leyser TD FBA (24 October 1920 – 27 May 1992) was a German-born British historian who was Fellow and Tutor in History, Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1948 to 1984, and Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford University, from 1984 to 1988.[1][2]

  1. ^ G. H. Martin, ‘Leyser, Karl Joseph (1920–1992)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 25 Oct 2013
  2. ^ ‘LEYSER, Prof. Karl Joseph’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 24 Oct 2013