Heinrich Gelzer

Heinrich Gelzer ( born July 1, 1847 in Berlin, † July 11, 1906 in Jena) was a native of Switzerland, classical scholar, historian and Byzantine Studies. He was dressed in his numerous works help to identify key insights into the late antique and medieval Byzantine history.

Life

The son of the Swiss historian and sometime professor in Berlin Johann Heinrich Gelzer - Sarasin studied at the University of Basel for five semesters at the Jacob Burckhardt and from 1867 to 1868 at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, Ernst Curtius, the excavator of Olympia. In 1865, he was among the founders of the Corps Alamannia Basel.

After receiving his doctorate in 1869 Gelzer was some time in Basel school teacher. From there, he participated together with a Swiss aid program to support measures for German wounded of the Franco-German War. In 1871, he traveled together with Curtius and Friedrich Adler Asia Minor. In Basel Gelzer 1872 Privatdozent, 1873 Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. In 1878 he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Jena. His son of the same was also a professor here. He was a member of the Royal. Saxon Academy of Sciences and corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Research focus Gelzers was the Byzantine history, and later the Armenian history and literature. In 1893 he was co-founder of the Byzantine magazine. He made more trips to Greece, Asia Minor and the countries of the Black Sea area, including 1902 and 1903 to Macedonia and on Mount Athos.

Awards

The theological faculty of the University of Jena gave Gelzer 1897 an honorary doctorate.

Works (selection)

  • Sextus Julius Africanus and the Byzantine chronology. 2 vols. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1880, 1885. Nachdr Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1978, ISBN 3-8067-0748-0.
  • The Genesis of the Byzantine themes Constitution ( 1899)
  • Spiritual and secular of the Turkish-Greek Orient. Teubner, Leipzig, 1900.
  • Unpublished and published texts of insufficient Notitiae episcopatuum. A Contribution to Byzantine churches and administrative history. Verl K. d Academy, Munich 1901.
  • Pergamon under the Byzantines and Ottomans (1903 )
  • From the Holy Mountain and from Macedonia. Travel pictures from the Athos monasteries and the Insurrektionsgebiet. Teubner, Leipzig, 1904.
  • Scriptores sacri et profani ... Vol 4 Des Stephanos of Taron Armenian history. From the Old Armenian translated by Heinrich Gelzer and Aug, Burckhardt. 1907
  • Byzantine cultural history. Mohr, Tübingen, 1909.
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