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Victor Gardthausen

1843 – 1925

German historian

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Lived 1843 – 1925 (aged 82). Victor Gardthausen was a German librarian, historian, university teacher, classical philologist and palaeographer.

Victor Emil Gardthausen (26 August 1843 – 27 December 1925) was a German ancient historian, palaeographer, librarian, and professor from Leipzig University. He was author and co-author of books, editor of ancient texts.

Between 1865 and 1869 Gardthausen studied philology in Kiel and Bonn. In Kiel Alfred von Gutschmid was his professor. and is younger than the Codex Vaticanus by at least fifty years. According to him, the Uspenski Gospels were seen by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz when he visited Mar Saba. Gardthausen dated Codex Boernerianus to the years 850–900 A.D. The evidence for this date range includes the style of the script, the smaller uncial letters in Greek, the Latin interlinear written in Anglo-Saxon minuscule and the separation of words. He investigated the nomina sacra. Gardthausen stated: Ist die Handschrift gefunden, so orientiert man durch eine detaillierte Beschreibung, die im Verlaufe der Arbeit durch Beispiele vervollständigt wird ("Any intensive study of a manuscript begins with a detailed description, which in the course of its study is completed through illustration"). Gardthausen's main work is Griechische Paläographie (Greek palaeography); the first edition appeared in 1879, the second in 1911/1913. It was the most important work since the time of Bernard de Montfaucon. It remains a standard work.

Works Die geographischen Quellen Ammians Probevortrag; Montag den 20. Januar 1873, Leipzig, 1873.

Mastara oder Servius Tullius: Mit einer Einleitung über die Ausdehnung des Etruskerreiches, Leipzig, 1882. Augustus und seine zeit, 2 vol., Leipzig, 1861–1904.

Sammlungen und Cataloge griechischer Handschriften, Leipzig, 1903. Der Altar des Kaiserfriedens, Ara Pacis Augustae, Leipzig, 1908. M. Vogel − V. Gardthausen, Die griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Leipzig, 1909. Amtliche Zitate in römischen Urkunden, Berlijn – e.a., 1910. Griechische Paleographie, 1 vol., 2 vol., Leipzig, 1911–1913. Die Schrift, Unterschriften, und chronologie im Altertum und im byzantinischen Mittelalter, Leipzig, 1913. Handbuch der wissenschaftlichen Bibliothekskunde, 2 vol., Leipzig, 1920. Die Alexandrinische Bibliothek, ihr Vorbild, Katalog und Betrieb, Leipzig, 1922. Das alte Monogramm, Leipzig, 1924. Autobiographie, [Leipzig, 1926].

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German historian (1843-1925)

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Victor Gardthausen was born on 28 August 1843 in Copenhagen.

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Victor Gardthausen died on 27 December 1925 in Leipzig.

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Victor Gardthausen was a librarian, historian, university teacher, classical philologist and palaeographer.

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