Walter Jacob (manuscript researcher)
Walter Jacob (born February 16, 1910 ; missing since February 1, 1942 ) was a German church historian and manuscript researcher.
From 1928 to 1935 he studied classical philology with Eduard Norden and church history with Hans Lietzmann and was interested in Latin and manuscripts. In 1932 he took on the task of the Church Fathers Commission of the Berlin Academy under the chairmanship of Lietzmann to critically edit the Historia tripartita of Cassiodorus for the edition of the Greek Church Fathers . He collected and sifted through the widely ramified material and presented the result to the philosophical faculty in 1935 as a dissertation with the title Investigation of the handwritten tradition of the so-called Historia tripartita together with a restoration of the text of Chapters I, 1 and VIII, 1 .
The Vienna Academy wanted to publish a Latin edition of the Historia tripartita in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) , to which the work of Jacobs should serve as an introduction. Jacobs was still able to correct some of the proofs during the war, but he was wounded on February 1, 1942 and reported missing. Rudolf Hanslik finally went to print the edition, which came out in 1952 as volume LXXI of the CSEL under the title Cassiodori-Epiphanii Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita . The edition got a shorter introduction and the detailed study by Jacobs was included as volume 59 in the series of texts and studies (TU). Rudolf Hanslik published the work in print in 1954, removing the two sample chapters, which were already obsolete due to the edition.
Jacobs includes a total of 138 of the approximately 150 manuscripts known at the time and four incunabula in his investigation. Jacobs gives a description of 138 manuscripts and investigates the fate of some lost or lost manuscripts. For the collation he used a selection of 40 manuscripts. He divides the manuscripts into six large text families and differentiates further groups of text witnesses within the families, with text family I providing the best text. Based on the evidence, Jacobs reconstructs a text in late antique Latin, which was no longer properly understandable at the time the manuscripts were created and was therefore frequently changed. At the end of the work he deals with the printed edition.
Publications
- Cassiodori-Epiphanii Historia ecclesiastica tripartita: Historiae ecclesiasticae ex Socrate sozomeno et Theodorito in unum collectae et nuper de Graeco in Latinum translatae libri numero 12. Rec. Waltarius Jacob. Ed. cur. Rudolphus Hanslik 1952. (= Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum vol. 71).
- The handwritten tradition of the so-called Historia Tripartita by Epiphanius-Cassiodor. Arranged for printing by Rudolf Hanslik. (= Texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature, vol. 59), Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1954.
Web links
- Publications by Walter Jacob in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
Individual evidence
- ↑ See foreword TU 59 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacob, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manuscript scholar and church historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1910 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after February 1, 1942 |