Max Lehmann (19 May 1845 – 8 October 1929) was a German historian, born in Berlin and educated at Königsberg, Bonn, and Berlin.In 1879 Lehmann began to teach in the Berlin Military Academy, and in 1887 was made a member of the Prussian Academy; a year later he went to Marburg as professor of history. In 1892 he was appointed to a like chair at Leipzig and in 1893 became professor of medieval and modern history at Göttingen. Famous Polish historian Szymon Askenazy wrote doctoral dissertation under Lehmann's supervision (1894).