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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 some books; editor of ancient texts.^[1]

Life

Gardthausen was born on 26 August 1843 at Copenhagen.^[1]

Between 1865 and 1869 Gardthausen studied philology in Kiel and Bonn. In Kiel Alfred von Gutschmid was his professor.^[1] After the Franco-Prussian War he was sent to Italy and Greece for palaeographical research. In 1873 he started work at the Leipziger Stadtbibliothek and from 1875 at the Leipzig University Library.^[1] From 1877 he was an extraordinary professor for ancient history. In 1887/1888 he was active again as a university librarian, becoming the main librarian in 1901. In 1907 he left the library service.

Gardthausen died on 27 December 1925 in Leipzig.^[1]

He examined Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Boernerianus, Uspenski Gospels, manuscripts housed in the monastery on Sinai many other. According to him, Codex Sinaiticus was written in Alexandria^[2] and is younger than Codex Vaticanus at least 50 years.^[3] According to him, the Uspenski Gospels were seen by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz when he visited Mar Saba.^[4] Gardthausen dated Codex Boernerianus to the 850-900 A.D. The evidence for this date 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.^[5]
He investigated the nomina sacra.^[6]
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).^[7]
The main work of Gardthausen is "Griechische Paläographie" (Greek palaeography), the first edition appeared in 1879, the second in 1911/1913. It was the most important work since time of Bernard de Montfaucon.^[8] It remains a standard work until to the present day.^[9]

Works

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


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  Mastara oder Servius Tullius: Mit einer Einleitung über die Ausdehnung des Etruskerreiches, Leipzig, 1882.


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  Augustus und seine zeit, 2 vol., Leipzig, 1861-1904.


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  Catalogus codicum Graecorum Sinaiticorum. Oxford. 1886.
  


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  Sammlungen und Cataloge griechischer Handschriften, Leipzig, 1903.


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  Der Altar des Kaiserfriedens, Ara Pacis Augustae, Leipzig, 1908.


• M. Vogel − V. Gardthausen, Die griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Leipzig, 1909.


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  Amtliche Zitate in römischen Urkunden, Berlijn – e.a., 1910.


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  Griechische Paleographie, 1 vol., 2 vol., Leipzig, 1911-1913.


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  Die Schrift, Unterschriften, und chronologie im Altertum und im byzantinischen Mittelalter, Leipzig, 1913.


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  Handbuch der wissenschaftlichen Bibliothekskunde, 2 vol., Leipzig, 1920.


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  Die Alexandrinische Bibliothek, ihr Vorbild, Katalog und Betrieb, Leipzig, 1922.


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  Das alte Monogramm, Leipzig, 1924.


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  Autobiographie, [Leipzig, 1926].

References

Further reading

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  Gerhard Baader (1964), "Gardthausen, Victor Emil", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 6, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 71–72
  


• Alexandra Habermann, Rainer Klemmt, Frauke Siefkes: Lexikon deutscher wissenschaftlicher Bibliothekare 1925–1980. Klostermann, Frankfurt 1985,
  ISBN 3-465-01664-5, S. 90.


• Nachruf von August Heisenberg, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Band 26 (1926), S. 251.

External links

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  Literatur von und über Victor Gardthausen in Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (DNB)


• Bücher und Aufsätze von Victor Gardthausen im Opac der Regesta Imperii
  


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  Gardthausen, Victor Emil at the Universität Leipzig


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  Victor Gardthausen at the Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig