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'''Karl Krumbacher''' (23 September 1856 – 12 December 1909) was a German scholar who was an expert on [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] Greek [[Medieval Greek|language]], [[Byzantine literature|literature]], history and culture. He was one of the principal founders of [[Byzantine Studies]] as an independent academic discipline in modern universities.

== Life and career ==
Krumbacher was born at [[Wiggensbach|Kürnach im Allgäu]] in the [[Kingdom of Bavaria]]. He studied Classical Philology and [[Indo-European studies|Indo-European linguistics]] at the Universities of [[University of Munich|Munich]] and [[University of Leipzig|Leipzig]]. In 1879 he passed the State Exam (Staatsexamen) and was thereafter active as a school teacher until 1891. In 1883 he gain his doctorate (Promotion) and in 1885 his [[Habilitation]] in Medieval and Modern Greek philology. From 1897 he was professor of [[Medieval Greek|Medieval]] and [[modern Greek language|Modern Greek Language]] and Literature at the [[University of Munich]] and held the newly created Chair of Byzantine Studies, the first professorial chair in this subject in the world. Krumbacher founded the ''[[Byzantinische Zeitschrift]]'' (1892), the oldest academic journal of Byzantine Studies, and the ''Byzantinisches Archiv'' (1898). His collaborator at the time was [[Božidar Prokić]], the renowned Belgrade Byzantinist. He died in [[Munich]] in 1909. His successor as Professor of Byzantine Studies was August Heisenberg, father of physicist [[Werner Heisenberg]].

His most important work is ''Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur von Justinian bis zum Ende des oströmischen Reiches (527-1453)'' (History of Byzantine Literature from [[Justinian I|Justinian]] to the Fall of the [[Byzantine Empire|East Roman Empire]]) in 1891. A second edition was published in 1897, with the collaboration of [[Albert Ehrhard]] (section on [[theology]]) and [[Heinrich Gelzer]] (general sketch of Byzantine history, AD 395–1453). The value of the work was greatly enhanced by its lengthy bibliographies and it remained a standard textbook for decades.

Krumbacher's extensive travels in Greece and the [[Ottoman Empire]] became the basis of his ''Griechische Reise'' (1886). His notable works include studies of the poetry of [[Michael Glykas]] (1894) and [[Kassia]] (1897) and ''Populäre Aufsätze'' (1900). In ''Das Problem der neugriechischen Schriftsprache'' (1902) he strongly opposed the efforts of the [[Katharevousa]] purists to introduce the classical style into modern Greek language and literature. A full list of his works was published in the memorial edition of ''Byzantinische Zeitschrift''.

==See also==

*[[Alexander Kazhdan]]

==References==

==Further reading==
* K. Dieterich, 'Zum Gedächtnis an Karl Krumbacher', ''Neue Jahrbücher für das klassische Altertum, Geschichte und deutsche Literatur und für Pädagogik'' 13 (1910) 279–295.
* A. Heisenberg, 'Karl Krumbacher', ''Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund'' NF 24 (1925) 1–26.
* [[Franz Dölger|F. Dölger]], 'Karl Krumbacher' in ''Chalikes. Festgabe für die Teilnehmer am XI. Internationalen Byzantinistenkongreß, München 15. – 20. September 1958'' (Freising 1958) 121–135.
* J. Aufhauser: 'Karl Krumbacher. Erinnerungen' in ''Chalikes. Festgabe für die Teilnehmer am XI. Internationalen Byzantinistenkongreß, München 15. – 20. September 1958'' (Freising 1958) 161–187.
* P. Wirth, 'Krumbacher, Karl' in M. Bernath and K. Nehring (eds.) ''Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas.'' 2: ''G – K'' (= ''Südosteuropäische Arbeiten'' 75) (München 1976) 515–516 ({{ISBN|3-486-49241-1}}).
* G. Prinzing, 'Ad fontem. Zum Gründungsjahr des Münchner "Seminars für Mittel- und Neugriechische Philologie"' in H. Lamm (ed.), ''40 Jahre Deutsch-Griechische Gesellschaft, Germano-Helleniko Syllogos, Wiesbaden. 1959–1999'' (Wiesbaden 1999) 14–16.
* P. Schreiner and E. Vogt (ed.), ''Karl Krumbacher. Leben und Werk'' (München 2011).

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141010090321/http://www.propylaeum.de/byzantinistik/themenportale/karl-krumbacher.html Themenportal bei Propylaeum]

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