Franz Dölger

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Franz Dölger (born October 4, 1891 in Kleinwallstadt , Lower Franconia , † November 5, 1968 in Munich ) was a German Byzantinist .

Live and act

Dölger was born the son of a doctor and graduated from the humanistic high school in Aschaffenburg . After studying classical philology with Otto Crusius and Albert Rehm in Munich , he came to Byzantine studies thanks to support from August Heisenberg . In 1913 and 1919 he passed the state examination for teaching. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the war as a soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross II class and the Bavarian Order of Military Merit. In 1919 he was in Munich with the dissertation Sources and Role Models for the poem of Meliteniotes. Ice Tin Sofeosinin. With an introduction on the person of the poet to Dr. phil. PhD. However, Dölger did not begin the school service, but entered the library service. He started as a trainee lawyer at the Bavarian State Library in 1919, then moved to the Munich University Library in 1921, where he remained full-time as a state librarian in the senior library service until 1931. In this position, he was particularly responsible for building up the keyword catalog. Dölger's habilitation took place in December 1925 with August Heisenberg in Munich on the history of Byzantine financial administration in the 10th and 11th centuries. With this work, Byzantine Studies was expanded to include economic history. From 1931 until his retirement in 1958, he taught as a full professor for Middle and Modern Greek Philology in Munich.

Dölger belonged to the Bavarian People's Party and became a member of the Stahlhelm , which became part of the SA in 1934 . He resigned from the SA a little later. He did not belong to the NSDAP . In November 1946 he was dismissed from his professorship and deposed as class secretary of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1947, he was classified as a "minor offender" in a panel proceedings.

Dölger's scientific work found great recognition in the professional world. He was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1935), corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1955), member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , the Academy of Athens , the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , the British Academy , the Académie royale de Belgique and member of the Società Italiana di Storia del Diritto . The universities of Athens (1937), Thessaloniki and Sofia (1939) made him honorary doctorates. In 1962 Dölger received the order Pour le Mérite and in 1965 the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on November 20, 1959.

Dölger was editor of the Byzantine magazine from 1931 to 1963 . He thus played a key role in the scientific community in his subject. Dölger was the founder of Byzantine diplomacy as a sub-discipline of Byzantine studies. In addition to numerous individual studies that were summarized in two anthologies, his processing of the Byzantine imperial documents was exemplary. Dölger succeeded for the first time in comprehensively documenting the government and administrative activities of the Byzantine emperors in five volumes with registers of 3555 documents. For the first time, the treasury of the Holy Mountain offered broad information about the archives of the Athos monasteries . In the year of his death, the handbook on the diplomacy of the Byzantine imperial charter, developed together with Karayannopulos, appeared.

literature

  • Johannes Maria Hoeck (Ed.): Festschrift, dedicated to Franz Dölger on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= Byzantinische Zeitschrift 44, 1951, ISSN  0007-7704 ).
  • Peter Wirth (Ed.): Polychronion. Festschrift Franz Dölger on his 75th birthday (= corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and modern times. Series D, Supplements 1, ZDB -ID 2254408-2 ). Winter, Heidelberg 1966.
  • Hans-Georg Beck : Franz Dölger. October 4, 1891 - November 5, 1968. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Yearbook 1969 , ISSN  0084-6090 , pp. 212-215.
  • Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , p. 60 f.
  • Bernd Rill : Dölger, Franz (1891–1968). In: Rüdiger vom Bruch , Rainer A. Müller (Hrsg.): Historikerlexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century (= Beck'sche series 405). Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-33997-2 , p. 73.
  • Martin Hose : Franz Dölger (1891–1968). A life for Byzantine diplomacy. In: Dietmar Willoweit , Ellen Latzin (eds.): Thinker, researcher and discoverer. A history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in historical portraits. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58511-1 , pp. 307-321.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Franz Dölger: The subject catalog of the university library in Munich. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 45, 1928. P. 728–747.
  2. ↑ Martin Hose: Franz Dölger (1891–1968). A life for Byzantine diplomacy . In: Dietmar Willoweit (ed.): Thinker, researcher and discoverer. A history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in historical portraits. Munich 2009, pp. 307–321, here: p. 317.
  3. ↑ Martin Hose: Franz Dölger (1891–1968). A life for Byzantine diplomacy . In: Dietmar Willoweit (ed.): Thinker, researcher and discoverer. A history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in historical portraits. Munich 2009, pp. 307–321, here: p. 319.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Franz Dölger , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  5. ^ Entry by Franz Dölger at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  6. ↑ Martin Hose: Franz Dölger (1891–1968). A life for Byzantine diplomacy . In: Dietmar Willoweit (ed.): Thinker, researcher and discoverer. A history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in historical portraits. Munich 2009, pp. 307–321, here: p. 307.
  7. ↑ Martin Hose: Franz Dölger (1891–1968). A life for Byzantine diplomacy . In: Dietmar Willoweit (ed.): Thinker, researcher and discoverer. A history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in historical portraits. Munich 2009, pp. 307–321, here: p. 321.
personal data
SURNAME Dölger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doelger, Franciscus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinwallstadt
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1968
Place of death Munich