Karl Krumbacher

Karl Krumbacher ( born September 23, 1856 in Kuernach im Allgau, Bavaria, † December 12, 1909 in Munich) was a German Byzantinist and Neogräzist. It can be regarded as the founder of Byzantine studies as an independent academic discipline.

Life

Krumbacher studied from 1876 Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig, 1879 he passed the state examination, after which he was engaged until 1891 in the teaching profession. In 1883 she received her doctorate, then in 1885 a PhD degree in Central and Modern Greek Philology. In Munich, he was also, from 1897, Professor of Medieval and Modern Greek Language and Literature and thus holder of the first Chair of Byzantine Studies.

Works

His main work is the history of Byzantine literature of Justinian until the end of the Eastern Roman Empire (1891 ), from which a second edition in 1897 with the collaboration of Albert Ehrhard ( theology ) and Heinrich Gelzer ( Sketch of Byzantine history 395-1453 ) appeared. The value of the work is greatly enhanced by the elaborate bibliography in bulk and in special supplements.

Krumbacher founded the Byzantine magazine (1892 ) and the Byzantine Archive ( 1898). The results of an extensive trip to Greece are part of his Greek Travel ( 1886). Other works are: Casia (1897 ), a treatise on a Byzantine poet from the 9th century with fragments of her poetry, the Greek literature of the Middle Ages in P. Hinnebergs The culture of the present, I 8 (1905 ); The problem of the modern Greek literary language (1902 ), in which he vehemently opposes the efforts of the purists to introduce the classic style in modern Greek literature again, and popular essays ( 1900).

A list of publications of his works can be found in the Byzantine magazine 19 from 1910, on pages 700-708.