Franz Dölger

Dölger Franz ( born October 4, 1891 in Kleinwallstadt, Lower Franconia, † November 5, 1968 in Munich) was a German Byzantinist.

Dölger was born the son of a doctor and graduated from the Humanistic School Aschaffenburg. Once in Munich, he studied Classical Philology at Otto Crusius and Albert Rehm, he came, by the support of August Heisenberg for Byzantine Studies. 1913 and 1919, he laid the state exam for teaching. From 1914 to 1918 he took part as a soldier in the war and was awarded the Iron Cross II Class and the Bavarian Military Merit. In 1919 he was in Munich with a dissertation sources and role models to the poems of Meliteniotes. Ice Tin Sofeosinin. With an introduction about the person of the poet Dr. phil. doctorate. Dölger not started the teaching profession, but entered the library service. The habilitation was made in December 1925 with August Heisenberg in Munich about the history of the Byzantine financial management in the 10th and 11th centuries. This work has been extended to the Byzantine economic history. From 1931 until his retirement in 1958 he taught as a professor of Middle and Modern Greek Philology in Munich.

Dölger belonged to the Bavarian People's Party and was a member of the Stahlhelm, which passed into the SA 1934. From the SA, he stepped out a little later. He belonged to the NSDAP not. In November 1946, he was dismissed from his professorship and removed as class secretary of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1947, he was classified as " minority -loaded " in a denazification court.

Dölgers scientific work found great recognition in the professional world. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Athens, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the British Academy and the Académie royale de Belgique. The Universities of Athens (1937 ), Thessaloniki and Sofia ( 1939) named him an honorary doctorate. 1962 Dölger received the Order Pour le Mérite and 1965, the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Dölger was from 1931 to 1963 editor of the Byzantine magazine. He had thus occupies a key role in scientific research in his field. Dölger was the founder of Byzantine diplomacy as a sub-discipline of Byzantine Studies. In addition to numerous individual studies that were summarized in two anthologies, his handling of the Byzantine imperial charters was exemplary. Dölger succeeded in five volumes with synopses of 3555 documents to comprehensively document the first time the government and administrative activities of the Byzantine Emperor. From the treasuries of the Holy Mountain for the first time offered a broad range of information about the document archives of the Athos monasteries. In the year of his death, which appeared together with Karayannopulos manual developed the diplomatics of the Byzantine emperors certificate.