Francis Dvornik

František Dvorník ( German Franz Dvornik, Francis Dvornik English; born August 14, 1893 in Chomýž; Moravia; † November 4, 1975 ) was a Czech theologian and church historian Byzantinist. He worked from 1948 to 1965 in Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Studies at Harvard University and is regarded as the most important Czech Byzantinist.

Life

Dvorník came from a Catholic family and graduated in 1912 at the Archdiocesan School Kremsier. He then studied theology until 1916 at the University of Olomouc. After his ordination in 1916 Dvorník initially worked as a clergyman in Bílovec and Vítkov. Between 1919 and 1920 he studied at the Charles University in Prague Slavic studies and archeology. In 1920 he received his doctorate at the Theological Faculty in Olomouc for Doctor Theologiae. Then Dvorník attended the University of Paris on a Byzantinistikstudium he with defending his habilitation thesis Les Slaves, Byzance et Rome au siècle IXe graduated in 1926 Docteur ès lettres entitled. After that Dvorník habililierte 1927-1928 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University in Church History. Dvorník was a founding member of the Slavic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the journal Byzantoslavica. After the German occupation of the " remainder of Czechoslovakia " Dvorník emigrated in 1939, first to the UK and 1940 in France. There he taught as a lecturer at the Collège de France and the École des Hautes Études. In 1948 Dvorník was appointed Professor of Byzantine Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Center at Harvard University. Between 1962 and 1965 Dvorník was an Advisor for History and Ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council. In 1965 he became Professor Emeritus. In the following years Dvorník regularly traveled to Czechoslovakia. He suffered in 1975 during a visit to his birthplace, a fatal heart attack and was buried in the tomb of his family in the cemetery of Bílavsko.

Honors

Dvorník was honored with honorary doctorates from the Universities of London and Paris. Pope Paul VI. recognized him the honorary title of Monsignor. He was posthumously 1992, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Order - III. Given class. There is a plaque at his birthplace in Chomýž.

The focus of his scientific work was the secular and spiritual power in the Byzantine Empire, particularly during periods of Patriarch Photios I.. His writings were published in English, French, German, Czech and Slovak.

Works (selection)

  • Les Slaves, Byzance et Rome au IXe siècle. Paris: Institut d' études slaves, 1926
  • La Vie de Saint Grégoire le Décapolite et les slaves macédoniens IXe au siècle. Paris: Institut d' études slaves, 1926
  • Život Svatého Václava, k tisícímu Výročí jeho mučednické smrti. Prague, 1929
  • Les légendes de Constantin et Méthode de vues de Byzance. Praha: Slovanský ústav, 1933
  • National Churches and the Church Universal. London: Dacre Press, 1944
  • The Kiev State and Its Relations with Western Europe. London: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 29, 1947
  • The Photian Schism: history and Legend. Cambridge: University Press, 1948
  • The Making of Central and Eastern Europe. London: Polish Research Centre, 1949
  • Svatý Vojtěch druhý, Pražský biskup. Chicago, 1950
  • The Slavs, Their Early History and Civilization. Boston, 1956
  • The Idea of ​​apostolicity in Byzantium and the Legend of the Apostle Andrew. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 4, Cambridge 1958
  • The General Council of the Church. London: Burns and Oates, 1961
  • The Slavs in European history and Civilization. New Brunswick: . Rutgers University Press, 1962 online version
  • Byzance et la primauté romaine. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1964
  • The Slavs in between East and West. Milwaukee: Marquette University Slavic Institute Papars 19, 1964
  • Early Christian and Byzantine Political Philosophy, Origins and Background. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Studies 9, 2 diely, 1966
  • Se znamením kříže. Rome: Christian Academy, 1967
  • Svatý Václav, Dědic České Země. Rome: Christian Academy, 1968
  • Byzantine Missions among the Slavs. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970
  • Photian and Byzantine Ecclesiastical Studies. London, 1974
  • Origins of Intelligence Services: the Ancient Near East, Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Arab Muslim Empires, the Mongol Empire, China, Moscovy. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1974
  • Byzantské misie u Slovanů. Prague: Vysehrad, 1970 ( English: Byzantine Missions among the Slavs: SS Constantine - Cyril and Methodius New Brunswick, NJ:. Rutgers University Press, 1970)
  • Zrod střední a Východní Evropy: Byzancí river made a Římem. Praha: Prostor, 1999 (2008) ISBN 80-7260-005-2 (ISBN 978-80-7260-195-0 )
  • Počátky zpravodajských and service: starověký Blízký východ, Persie, Řecko, Řím, byzantská říše, arabsko - muslimské říše, mongolská říše, Čína, Moskevské knížectví. Praha: Prostor, 2001 ISBN 80-7260-056-7
  • Fotiovo Schizma: a history legenda. Olomouc: refuge Velehrad - Roma, 2008 ISBN 978-80-86715-94-0
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