Abstract (eng)
During the years 1892 to 1909 two renowned scholars exchanged a considerable number of letters, most of which deal with standard issues of academic activity at the end of the 19th century. Over the course of the years, Karl Krumbacher (1856-1909), German byzantinist and founder of the scientific periodical Byzantinische Zeitschrift, and Spyridon Lampros (1851-1919), Greek historian and philologist, wrote more than forty letters each, mostly regarding their ongoing academic projects. As they were both interested in Greek manuscripts and documents, these are recurring topics in their correspondence; Krumbacher wanted to gather and publish all Greek documents from the Middle Ages to more recent times, while Lampros was working on a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts on Mount Athos. The latter also drafted a large number of scientific articles for Krumbachers’ periodical, which then underwent linguistic revision and were finally published in German, a second language to Lampros.
In this thesis, a transcription of the handwritten letters is provided, as well as a preceding commentary in which the topics mentioned in the correspondence are put into context and explained in detail.