Bernhard Bischoff

Bernhard Bischoff ( born December 20, 1906 in Altendorf in Altenburg ( Thuringia), † September 17, 1991 in Munich) was a German paleograph, philologist and historian.

Life

His parents were the state leaseholders Emil Bischoff and his wife Charlotte von Gersdorff, who died giving birth to her son. He was educated in the sense of a Prussian- Protestant pietism.

After receiving his doctorate in 1933 Bischoff was hired by the American palaeographers Elias Avery Lowe as an assistant for the catalog business "Codices Latini Antiquiores ". On this project, which should cover all 1800 written before AD 800 Latin manuscripts, he worked until its completion in 1972. 1943 Bischoff habilitation with a thesis on " the Latin form of the Celtic peoples in the Early Middle Ages ." In 1947, Bischoff lecturer in Munich, 1953, he took over the chair of his teacher and thesis supervisor Paul Lehmann Latin Philology of the Middle Ages, a position he held until his retirement in 1974. Here he worked on in the teachings of the predecessor Ludwig Traube.

1953 Bischoff was elected to the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae (MGH ). In his last years, he concentrated his work on a catalog of about 7000 continental manuscripts of the 9th century, which was published by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and posthumously (currently published in two volumes, see below under works ). Bischoff was, inter alia, awarded four honorary doctorates, including those from Oxford and Cambridge.

Bischoff was able to achieve outstanding achievements in the field of Latin palaeography. His skills were particularly in determining the time and place of origin of medieval manuscripts. In his scholarly life, he has thousands of related inquiries from around the world answered promptly and accurately. Bischoff's bibliography includes about 240 items.

The honorary doctorate from the University of Dublin it was in 1962 that gave the University of Oxford in 1963 and the University of Milan. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1956), the Royal Irish Academy (since 1957), the Medieval Academy of America ( since 1960), the German Archaeological Institute (since 1962 ) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1968). He was a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts and carrier further orders.

Bischoff was married to Hanne Oehler King since 1935 and lived most recently in Planegg (Upper Bavaria).

Writings

  • The South East German writing schools and libraries in the Carolingian period, Part I: The Bavarian dioceses, Leipzig 1940 ( 2nd edition: Wiesbaden 1960, 3rd Edition: Wiesbaden 1974); Part II: The predominantly Austrian dioceses, Wiesbaden 1980.
  • Medieval studies. Selected essays on palaeography and literary history, 3 vols, Hiersemann, Stuttgart from 1966 to 1981.
  • Catalogue of the continental manuscripts of the ninth century ( with the exception of the Visigothic ) Harrassowitz (Commission for publishing the Medieval Library Catalogues of Germany and Switzerland / Bavarian Academy of Science Publications ): Wiesbaden 1998 Part 1: Aachen - Lambach. . ISBN 3-447-03196-4.
  • Catalogue of the continental manuscripts of the ninth century ( with the exception of the Visigothic ), from the estate edited by Birgit Ebersperger (Publications of the Commission for the issuance of the medieval library catalogs in Germany and Switzerland / Bavarian Academy of Sciences). Part 2: Laon - Paderborn. Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-04750- X. .
  • Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, translated and edited by Michael Gorman ( Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 1), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-38346-3 review
  • Paleography of Roman antiquity and medieval Europe. 3 unchanged edition Berlin 2004. ( Fundamentals of German 24). ISBN 3-503-07914-9.

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