Ernst Honigmann (Byzantinist)

Ernst Reinhard Wolfgang Honigmann , the first name also Ernest (born August 8, 1892 in Breslau ; † July 30, 1954 in Brussels ) was a German Byzantinist .

Life

After attending the Johannes-Gymnasium in Breslau until his Abitur in 1911, Ernst Honigmann studied history, geography and oriental languages ​​at the universities of Breslau and Freiburg from 1911 to 1917 , interrupted from 1914 to 1916 by participating in the First World War . From 1917 he worked in higher education. In 1920 he received his doctorate in Breslau. In 1920 he joined the State and University Library in Wroclaw as a volunteer , was appointed library assistant in 1922, librarian in 1925, and library councilor in 1927. In 1931 he moved to the Berlin State Library as a library councilor . In 1933 he was dismissed as a Jew under the Law to Restore the Civil Service .

He then moved to Belgium in 1933 , where he worked from 1934 to 1940 as a scientist at the Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves of the Université libre de Bruxelles with Henri Grégoire . The invasion of Belgium by German troops in 1940 forced him to emigrate to the United States via southern France . In 1946 he returned to the University of Brussels, where he was appointed Maître de conférences in 1949 and professor in 1953.

Ernst Honigmann was one of the leading Byzantinists of his time. He was particularly concerned with the historical topography and history of the Byzantine Empire and with church history . He wrote numerous articles for the Realencyclopedia of Classical Antiquity .

Fonts (selection)

• Ancient topography of northern Syria . Leipzig 1923 (extended version of the dissertation, Breslau 1920)
• The seven climates and the poleis episēmoi. An investigation into the history of geography and astrology in ancient times and the Middle Ages . Heidelberg 1929 (see climate (historical geography) )
• The eastern border of the Byzantine Empire from 363 to 1071 according to Greek, Arabic, Syrian and Armenian sources . Brussels 1935
• Le Synekdèmos d'Hiéroklès et l'opuscule géographique de Georges de Chypre . Brussels 1939
• The original lists of the members of the Council of Nicaea, the Robber-Synod and the Council of Chalcedon . In: Byzantion 16 (1942), pp. 20-80
• The Lost end of Menander's Epitrepontes . Brussels 1950
• Patristic Studies . Rome 1953
• Trois mémoires posthumes d'histoire et de geographie de l'Orient Chrétien . Brussels 1961

literature

• Henri Grégoire : In memoriam Ernest Honigmann . In: Byzantion 23 (1953), pp. 586-598
• Mémoirs de l'Académie Royale de Belgique . Brussels 1961, p. Vff.
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Published by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

Web links

• Literature by Ernst Honigmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Honigmann, Ernest .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Ernst Honigmann's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)