Joachim Scharf

Göttingen, Stadtfriedhof: Joachim Scharf's grave

Joachim Scharf (born January 1, 1913 in Salzderhelden , † July 28, 1965 in Trier ) was a German Byzantinist .

Joachim Scharf, the son of a Reichsbahn official, moved with his parents to Göttingen in 1923 and attended the municipal high school there . After graduation (1931) he studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Göttingen and the University of Freiburg (with Martin Heidegger , Walther Kolbe and Wolfgang Schadewaldt ). In 1936, he was in Göttingen at Ulrich Kahrstedt and Edward Schröder with the thesis studies on the population history of the Rhineland on epigraphic based doctorate . After the first state examination (1937) he worked as an assistant at the University of Freiburg and the University of Berlin .

When the Second World War broke out , Scharf was drafted and sent to the front. After a long imprisonment, he was initially active in the school service, where he also worked on the revision of the textbook Ianua linguae Latinae . However, his goal was still an academic career. On July 4, 1960 habilitation settling in Göttingen at Percy Ernst Schramm for Byzantine Studies . On April 1, 1964, Scharf was appointed to the newly established chair for Byzantine Studies at the University of Münster . He died on July 28, 1965 on an excursion to Trier among his students. A conference was held in his honor in January 2015 at the University of Münster.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the population history of the Rhineland on an epigraphic basis. New German Research, Dept. of Ancient History , Junker & Dünnhaupt Publishing House, Berlin 1938
• Ithome again . In: Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 3 (1954), pp. 153–162
• The Athenians' first Egyptian expedition. A contribution to the history of pentecontacty. In: Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 3 (1955), pp. 308-325
• Photios and the Epanagogue. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 49 (1956), pp. 385-400
• Source studies on the Prooimion of the Epanagoge. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 52 (1959), pp. 68–81
• Studies on Smaragdus and Jonas. In: Deutsches Archiv 17 (1961), pp. 371–384
• The Emperor in Proskynesis. Comments on the interpretation of the imperial mosaic in the narthex of Hagia Sophia of Constantinople. In: Festschrift Percy Ernst Schramm appropriated by students and friends on his seventieth birthday , Wiesbaden 1964, pp. 27–35
• Ius Divinum. Aspects and perspectives of a Byzantine theory of two powers. In: Peter Wirth (Ed.): Polychronion. Festschrift for Ms. Dölger on her 75th birthday. Heidelberg 1966, pp. 462-479

literature

• Joachim Scharf (obituary) . In: Byzantine Journal . Volume 58/59 (1965), p. 515

Web links

• Sharp, Joachim .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .