About Francis Dvornik
Lived 1893 – 1975 (aged 82). Francis Dvornik was a Czech historian, catholic priest, university teacher, byzantinist, church historian and religious writer.
Lectures and articles
"Le premier schisme de Photios" in Actes du IVe Congrés international des études Byzantines. Bulletin de l'institut archéologique bulgare, IX, 1935.
"L'oecuménicité du huitième concile (869-870) dans la tradition occidentale du moyen âge". Bulletins de la classe des lettres et des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 5th ser., vol. 24 (1938), pp. 445–487.
"The First Wave of the 'Drang nach Osten'". Cambridge Historical Journal 7:3 (1943), pp. 129–145.
"National Churches and the Church Universal". Eastern Churches Quarterly 5 (1945).
"The Study of Church History and Christian Reunion". Eastern Churches Quarterly 6 (1945).
"The Diffusion of Greek Culture. 6, Byzantium and the North". Geographical Magazine 19 (1946), pp. 295–304.
"The Kiev State and Its Relations with Western Europe". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1947), pp. 27–46. Reprinted in Essays in Medieval History, selected from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society on the occasion of its centenary, edited by R. W. Southern. London: Macmillan, 1968.
"The Diffusion of Greek Culture. 9, Byzantine Influences in Russia". Geographical Magazine 20 (1947), pp. 29–40.
"The Photian Schism in Western and Eastern Tradition". The Kornes Lecture, given at King's College, University of London May 8, 1947. Printed in The Review of Politics 10:3 (1948), pp. 310–331.
"Byzance, les Slaves et les Francs". Russie et Chrétienté 3-4 (1949).
"Photius et la réorganisation de l'académie patriarchale". Mélanges Paul Peeters, vol. 2 (Analecta Bollandiana 68). Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1950, pp. 108–125.
"Pope Gelasius and Emperor Anastasius I". Byzantinische Zeitschrift 44 (1951), pp. 111–116.
"Emperors, Popes, and General Councils", Dumbarton Oaks Papers 6 (1951), pp. 1–23.
"The Patriarch Photius and Iconoclasm", Dumbarton Oaks Papers 7 (1953), pp. 67–97.
"Les Bénédictins et la christianisation de la Russie", in 1054-1954: L'Église et les églises. Neuf siècles de douloureuse séparation entre l'Orient et l'Occident. Études et travaux sur l'unité chrétienne offerts à Dom Lambert Beauduin. Chevetogne: Éditions de Chevetogne, 1954, pp. 323–349.
"The Mediaeval Cultural Heritage of the Mid-European Area". Review of Politics 18:4 (1956), pp. 487–507. ("Based on a lecture given ... at Wayne University Detroit, March 17, 1954.")
"Byzantine Political Ideas in Kievan Russia], Dumbarton Oaks Papers 9/10 (1956), pp. 73–121.
"The Byzantine Church and the Immaculate Conception", in The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception, edited by Edward D. O'Connor. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1958, pp. 87–112.
"Die Benediktiner und die Christianisierung Russlands". Benediktinische Monatschrift 35:4 (1959), pp. 292–310.
"Patriarch Photius: Scholar and Statesman", Classical Folia 13 (1959), pp. 3–18; 14 (1960), pp. 2–22.
"The role of Bohemia and St. Adalbert in the spread of Christianity in Poland", The Polish Review 5:4 (1960), pp. 15–28.
"The Patriarch Photius and Roman Primacy". Chicago Studies (1963), pp. 94–107.
"The Slavs between East and West". Marquette University Slavic Institute Papers no. 19. Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University, Slavic Institute, 1964.
"Die Bedeutung der Brüder Cyrill und Method für die Slaven- und Kirchengeschichte: Festvortrag", in Prolegomena ad Acta Congressus historiae Slavicae Salisburgensis in memoriam SS. Cyrilli et Methodii anno 1963 celebrati. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1964, pp. 17–32.
"The Significance of the Missions of Cyril and Methodius". Slavic Review 23:2 (1964), pp. 195–211.
"SS. Cyrille et Méthode et la Christianisation des Slaves". Slavic and East-European Studies 8 (1963), pp. 132–152.
"Two Problems in the History of St. Constantine-Cyril", in Festschrift für Dmitrij Tschizewskij zum 70. Geburtstag. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1966, pp. 181–186.
"Patriarch Ignatius and Caesar Bardas". Byzantinoslavica 27:1 (1966), pp. 7–22.
"The Embassies of Constantine-Cyril and Photius to the Arabs", in To Honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. The Hague: Mouton, 1967, pp. 569–576.
"The Byzantine Mission to Moravia", in Czechoslovakia Past and Present, edited by Mila Rechcigl. Vol. 2. Essays on the arts and sciences. Mouton, [1968?], pp. 1107–1121.
"Missions of the Greek and Western Churches in the East during the Middle Ages". Lecture at the 13th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Moscow, 1970.
"Photius, Nicholas I and Hadrian II", Byzantinoslavica 34:1 (1973), pp. 33–50.
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Czech historian (1893-1975)
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Francis Dvornik was born on 14 August 1893 in Chomýž.
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Francis Dvornik died on 4 November 1975 in Chomýž.
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Francis Dvornik was a historian, catholic priest, university teacher, byzantinist, church historian and religious writer.
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Francis Dvornik was Czech.
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