Edmund Weigand
Edmund Weigand (born February 1, 1887 in Wermerichshausen ; † January 5, 1950 ) was a German Byzantinist and art historian .
Life
Weigand studied Classical Philology , Archeology and Byzantine Studies at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich . Karl Krumbacher and Otto Crusius were among his teachers . After studying in various countries, he became a lecturer at the University of Würzburg in 1910. With a thesis on The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem: a study of Christian antiquity he was in 1911 a doctorate . In 1938 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Munich and in 1941 a full professor of Byzantine Studies at the German Charles University in Prague. After the end of the Second World War he returned to Munich.
Weigand's specialty was Byzantine art history . Many of his scholarly articles appeared in the Byzantine Journal . From 1942 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
literature
- Franz Dölger : Edmund Weigand (obituary) . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . 1951 ( online [PDF; accessed on May 23, 2017]).
Web links
- Weigand, Edmund . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Works by and about Edmund Weigand in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Munich (ed.): Civil status completed on October 31, 1941 . Munich 1941, p. 33 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weigand, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Byzantinist and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wermerichshausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 1950 |