Theodor Ernst "Ted" Mommsen was a German historian of medieval cultural and intellectual history with wide-ranging scholarly interests, from the Church Father Augustine of Hippo to the early Renaissance poet Petrarch. He was the grandson, and namesake, of the renowned historian of ancient Rome Theodor Mommsen. Mommsen began his academic career in Germany but emigrated to the United States in 1936 to escape Nazism.
- Occupation
- medievalist, university teacher, historian
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- July 11, 1905
- Died
- July 18, 1958
