Karl Krumbacher

Karl Krumbacher (born September 23, 1856 in Kürnach im Allgäu , Bavaria , † December 12, 1909 in Munich ) was a German Byzantinist and Neo-Graecist . He can be seen as the founder of Byzantine Studies as an independent academic discipline.

Life

Krumbacher lived in Kempten (Allgäu) during his school and high school days . There he studied at the Kempten Humanistic High School . Then from 1876 he studied Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig , in 1879 he passed the state examination, after which he worked in school until 1891. In 1883 the doctorate followed , in 1885 the habilitation for Middle and Modern Greek Philology. In Munich he was also professor of medieval and modern Greek language and literature from 1897 and thus holder of the first chair for Byzantine Studies .

One of his students is August Heisenberg , who was the successor to his chair in Munich.

Works

His main work is the history of Byzantine literature from Justinian to the end of the Eastern Roman Empire (1891), a second edition of which appeared in 1897 with the collaboration of Albert Ehrhard (theology) and Heinrich Gelzer (sketch of the Byzantine history from 395 to 1453). The value of the work is greatly increased by the elaborated bibliography in the main part and in special supplements.

Krumbacher founded the Byzantine Journal (1892) and the Byzantine Archive (1898). The results of an extensive trip to Greece are part of his Greek journey (1886). Other works are: Casia (1897), a treatise on a Byzantine poet from the 9th century with fragments of her poetry, The Greek literature of the Middle Ages in P. Hinneberg's Die Kultur der Gegenwart , I 8 (1905); The Problem of Modern Greek Written Language (1902), in which he vigorously opposed the purist efforts to reintroduce the classical style in modern Greek literature, and Popular Essays (1900).

A list of his works can be found in Byzantine Journal 19 from 1910 on pages 700–708.

Memberships

In 1890 he was elected an extraordinary member of the Munich Academy .
In 1894 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
In 1904 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

literature

Karl Dieterich : In memory of Karl Krumbacher. In: New year books for classical antiquity, history and German literature and for pedagogy 13, 1910, ZDB -ID 217905-2 , pp. 279–295.
August Heisenberg : Karl Krumbacher. In: Allgäu history friend. NF Vol. 24, 1925, ISSN 0178-6199 , pp. 1-26.
Franz Dölger : Karl Krumbacher. In: Chalikes. Determination for the participants in the XI. International Byzantine Congress, Munich 15. – 20. September 1958. Freising 1958, pp. 121-135.
Johann Aufhauser: Karl Krumbacher. Memories. In: Chalikes. Determination for the participants in the XI. International Byzantine Congress, Munich 15. – 20. September 1958. Freising 1958, pp. 161-187.
Peter Wirth : Krumbacher, Karl. In: Mathias Bernath, Karl Nehring (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas. Volume 2: G – K (= Southeast European Works 75). Oldenbourg, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-486-49241-1 , pp. 515-516.
Peter Wirth: Krumbacher, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 121 ( digitized version ).
Günter Prinzing : Ad fontem. For the founding year of the Munich “Seminar for Middle and Modern Greek Philology”. In: Holger Lamm (Ed.): 40 Years of the German-Greek Society, Germano-Helleniko Syllogos, Wiesbaden. 1959-1999. German-Greek Society, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 14-16.
Peter Schreiner / Ernst Vogt (ed.): Karl Krumbacher. Life and work. Munich 2011.
Wolfram Hörandner: KRUMBACHER, Karl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 711-712. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Ralf Lienert: One of the oldest schools in Bavaria: The Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium celebrates its 200th anniversary on October 2nd. In: all-in.de, August 30, 2004 (accessed January 10, 2016)
^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Karl Krumbacher. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 25, 2015 (Russian).
^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 22, 2020 .

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Krumbacher - Sources and full texts

Commons : Karl Krumbacher - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Karl Krumbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
Krumbacher, Karl . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Subject portal at Propylaeum - Virtual Specialized Library of Classical Studies
Krumbacher's estate in the Bavarian State Library

personal data
SURNAME	Krumbacher, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiggensbach , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1909
Place of death	Munich

[1] Ralf Lienert: One of the oldest schools in Bavaria: The Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium celebrates its 200th anniversary on October 2nd. In: all-in.de, August 30, 2004 (accessed January 10, 2016)

[2] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Karl Krumbacher. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 25, 2015 (Russian).

[3] Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 22, 2020 .