Franz Tinnefeld

Franz Hermann Tinnefeld (born February 19, 1937 in Düsseldorf ) is a German Byzantinist .

In 1962, Tinnefeld began researching the ancient Latin tradition of Timothy I. The Latin text of Paul in the manuscripts DEFG and in the commentaries by Ambrosiaster and Pelagius at the University of Bonn . In 1971, with the work Categories of Imperial Criticism in Byzantine Historiography from Prokop to Niketas Choniates, his habilitation at the University of Munich for Byzantine Studies took place . In 1974 he became a university lecturer, and in 1986 he was appointed adjunct professor for Byzantine Studies at the University of Munich. In 2002 he retired.

Publications

Monographs

• Investigations into the old Latin tradition of the first Timothy letter. The Latin text of Paul in the manuscripts DEFG and in the commentaries of Ambrosiaster and Pelagius. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 1963 (= dissertation).
• Categories of imperial criticism in Byzantine historiography from Procopius to Niketas Choniates. Munich, Fink 1971 (= habilitation thesis).
• Early Byzantine Society. Structure, opposites, tensions. Munich, Fink 1977. ISBN 3-7705-1495-5 .
• with Klaus-Peter Matschke: Society in late Byzantium. Groups, structures and forms of life. Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau 2001. ISBN 3-412-10199-0 .

Translations

• Demetrios Kydones : letters . Transl. And ext. by Franz Tinnefeld. So far 4 volumes, Hiersemann, Stuttgart, 1981–2003 ( Library of Greek Literature ).
• Nikephoros Gregoras : Rhomean History. In continuation of the work by Jan Louis van Dieten trans. and ext. by Franz Tinnefeld. In six parts. Hiersemann, Stuttgart, 1973–2007 ( Library of Greek Literature ).

Web links

• Tinnefeld, Franz Hermann .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .