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KRUMBACHER, CARL (1856–1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 933 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KRUMBACHER, CARL (1856–1909)

KRUMBACHER, CARL (1856–1909) , See also:

German See also:

BYZANTINE

Byzantine See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Kurnach in See also:

BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria on the 23rd of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1856. He was educated at the See also:

UNIVERSITIES

universities of See also:

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich and See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, and held the professorship of the See also:

MIDDLE

middle See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age and See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

Greek See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and literature in the former from 1897 to his See also:

DEATH

death. His greatest See also:

WORK

work is his Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (from Justinian to the fall of the Eastern See also:

EMPIRE

Empire, 1453), a second edition of which was published in 1897, with the collaboration of A. Ehrhard (See also:

section on See also:

THEOLOGY

theology) and H. Gelzer (See also:

general See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of Byzantine See also:

HISTORY

history, A.D. 395-1453). The value of the work is greatly enhanced by the elaborate See also:

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

bibliographies contained in the See also:

BODY

body of the work and in a See also:

SPECIAL

special supplement. Krumbacher also founded the Byzantinische Zeitschrift (1892) and the Byzantinisches Archie (1898). He travelled extensively and the results of a See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

GREECE

Greece appeared in his Griechische Reise (1886). Other See also:

WORKS

works by him are: Casia (1897), a See also:

TREATISE

treatise on a 9th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Byzantine poetess, with the fragments; See also:

Michael Glykas (1894); " See also:

Die griechische Litteratur See also:

DES

des Mittelalters " in P. Hinneberg's Die Kultur der Gegenwart, i. 8 (1905); Das Problem der neugriechischen Schriftsprache (1902), in which he strongly opposed the efforts of the purists to introduce the classical See also:

style into modern Greek literature, and Populare Aufsdtze (1909).

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