Paul Marc

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Paul Marc (born December 23, 1877 in Munich , † September 23, 1949 in Maising ) was a German Byzantinist and diplomat .

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Paul Marc was the son of the painter Wilhelm Marc and the older brother of the expressionist painter Franz Marc . Unlike his father and brother, he did not pursue an artistic, but an academic career. Both brothers attended the Luitpold-Gymnasium , at times together with Albert Einstein . After graduating from high school, Paul Marc began studying Classical Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Through Karl Krumbacher he came into contact with Byzantine Studies and in 1901 became a central employee in the academy project “ Corpus of Greek Documents of the Middle Ages and Modern Times” initiated by Krumbacher . As the first preparatory work, the book “Plan of a Corpus of Greek Documents of the Middle Ages and Modern Times” was published in 1903. In addition to a project presentation by Krumbacher and Konstantin Jireček , Marc provided a more than 100-page “register of Byzantine and modern Greek documents” that he had created within just two years.

Byzantine Journal , Volume 18, 1909. Title page

In the following years Marc continued to collect documents, sifted through them and drafted a concept for the publication of the documents. In 1906 he traveled to Mount Athos , accompanied by his brother Franz, to view the monastic documents there. Unlike many travelers, the brothers succeeded in establishing good contact with both the monks and the Turkish authorities for the project. It was not until 1909 that Marc, who until then had been doing his academy research as a private citizen and had only been reimbursed for his expenses, got a permanent position at the academy. In 1909, shortly before he died, Krumbacher made his closest colleague co-editor of the Byzantine magazine . In 1910, Marc presented the Association of Academies in Rome with a report on the status of the work, as well as the first test editions and examples of document registers , which are regarded as exemplary. Further study trips took him to Venice in April 1911 , to Patmos in September and October 1911 and to Athens in 1913 . He was also in correspondence with representatives of international history, including Spyridon Lambros , Konstantin Jireček, Karl Brandi , Joseph Bidez , Gabriel Millet , Richard Salomon and John Bagnell Bury .

Paul Marc's career has been through the First World War ended; he lost a leg in Verdun , his brother Franz, hit by two shrapnel, died. After returning from the war, he ended his collaboration with the Munich Academy and initially looked after his brother's estate. He took up a position at the publishing house Der Neue Merkur , where he edited the international mail. As a connection to Byzantine studies, the publication of the Byzantine magazine remained , which he managed together with August Heisenberg until 1928. Franz Dölger succeeded him both at his academy position and as editor . In 1924, 1925 and 1932, Dölger brought out the first three volumes with documents in quick succession. In doing so, he benefited from Marc's preparatory work, who, according to the more recent opinion, must be regarded as co-author of at least the first volumes. In 1923 he moved to Hamburg as deputy director of the Institute for Foreign Policy . Paul Marc's work in this institution, which in the time of National Socialism from a peace-oriented and democratic institution gradually into line and was moved in 1937 to Berlin, not been studied; he held the position of librarian. At the end of the war , Paul Marc lived with his wife Helene as a pensioner in Maising .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Conrad Grau: The document corpus of the Eastern Roman Empire. The International Association and the Cartel of Academies. A contribution to the history of Byzantine Studies . In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society 18, 3 (1997) p. 71
  2. ^ Digitized version of Richard Salomon's hand copy with corrections and additions to Marc's register.
  3. ↑ Andreas E. Müller: On the disappearance of an unknown size: the Byzantinist Paul Marc . In: Viennese Byzantine Studies and Neo-Greek Studies . Vienna 2004, pp. 310-311
  4. ^ Andreas E. Müller: August Heisenberg, Paul Marc and the search for a suitable in-house counsel for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In: Römische Historische Mitteilungen 45 (2003), pp. 191–197
  5. ↑ Andreas E. Müller: On the disappearance of an unknown size: the Byzantinist Paul Marc . In: Viennese Byzantine Studies and Neo-Greek Studies . Vienna 2004, p. 314

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SURNAME Marc, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1949
Place of death Maising