Karl Hopf
Karl Hopf (born February 19, 1832 in Hamm (Westphalia), † August 23, 1873 in Wiesbaden ) was a German historian and Byzantinist .
Life
Karl Hopf studied at the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1852 with a dissertation on the medieval history of Greece, to which his studies remained from then on.
After completing his habilitation in Bonn, he went on a trip to Italy in 1853 and was appointed associate professor and librarian in Greifswald in 1858 and full professor of history and senior librarian at the University of Königsberg in 1864.
With tireless diligence he researched libraries and archives in Italy and Greece for materials on Greek history, the individual parts of which he thoroughly treated in numerous monographs (reproduced in the reports of the meetings of the Vienna Academy), and of which he wrote in the 85th and 86th volumes of the Erwin and Gruber's Encyclopedia has given a less animated and clear outline.
He also published a historical-genealogical atlas (Gotha 1858-61, volumes 1 and 2) and wrote:
- Veneto-Byzantine Analects (Vienna 1859);
- The immigration of the gypsies into Europe (Gotha 1870).
The Greek Philological Society in Constantinople made him an honorary member in 1870.
His last work was the publication of the Chroniques gréco-romanes inédites ou peu connues .
Works
- Karl Hopf (Ed.): Chroniques gréco-romanes inédites ou peu connues . Berlin 1873, archive.org
literature
- Peter Wirth : Hopf, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 609 ( digitized version ).
- Ludwig Streit: Hopf, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 102-104.
- Michael Czolkoß: Studies on the history of historical science. The University of Greifswald in the Prussian university landscape (1830–1865) . Marburg 2015, from a. Pp. 84-86, 107-112, 121-126.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Hopf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by Karl Hopf in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hopf, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hopf, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian and Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamm |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1873 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |