thumb|Johann Friedrich Böhmer.
Johann Friedrich Böhmer (born April 22, 1795, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died Oct. 22, 1863, Frankfurt am Main) was a historian known for his Regesta, an annotated collection of charters and imperial documents of medieval Germany.[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Friedrich-Bohmer]
Biography
Böhmer was born in Frankfurt as the son of the Palatine official Karl Ludwig Böhmer. Educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen, he showed an interest in art and visited Italy; but returning to Frankfurt he turned his attention to the study of history, and became secretary of the Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde. He was also archivist and then librarian of the city of Frankfurt.
Böhmer had a great dislike of Prussia and the Protestant faith, and a corresponding affection for Austria and the Roman Catholic Church, to which, however, he did not belong. His researches are of great value to students. He died unmarried.
Johannes Janssen wrote a biography in three volumes in 1868 of Böhmer, a man whom he considered as his teacher and guide.
Historical work
Böhmer's historical work was chiefly concerned with collecting and tabulating charters and other imperial documents of the Middle Ages. First, an abstract appeared: the Regesta chronologico-diplomatica regum atque imperatorum Romanorum 911-1313 (Frankfurt, 1831), which was followed by the Regesta chronologico-diplomatica Karolorum. Die Urkunden sämtlicher Karolinger in kurzen Auszügen (Frankfurt, 1833), and a series of Regesta imperii.