Karl Hopf

Karl Hopf
Born Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf
(1832-02-19)February 19, 1832
Hamm, Westphalia
Died August 23, 1873(1873-08-23) (aged 41)
Wiesbaden
Nationality German
Occupation historian
Known for being an expert in Medieval Greece, both Byzantine and Frankish

Karl Hopf (Hamm, Westphalia, February 19, 1832 – Wiesbaden, August 23, 1873) or Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf was historian and expert in Medieval Greece, both Byzantine and Frankish.

Career

Hopf graduated from the University of Bonn, where he received his Ph.D. in the medieval history of Greece. He worked as a professor and librarian in the University of Greifswald and the University of Königsberg. He frequently visited Italian and Greek medieval archives finding sources for his works.

Notable works

His notable works include important "History of Greece from the beginning of Middle Ages to the year 1821".[1] It was considered as the most important addition made to the knowledge about Byzantine and modern Greek history in period 1863-1877 when considerable additions have been made.[2] In his 1870 work Hopf dealt with migration of Romani people. According to him, after they came from East, Romani people were first concentrated on Romanian lands. To escape slavery, they went to Serbia and Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan dispersed them troughout Balkans, as far as Greece.[3]

Sources

Works

References

  1. ↑ Sandys, John Edwin (1964). A History of Classical Scholarship. CUP Archive. p. 231. GGKEY:WR14Z6EDD45.
  2. ↑ Finlay, George (6 November 2014). A History of Greece. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-108-07833-7.
  3. ↑ Achim, Viorel (January 2004). The Roma in Romanian History. Central European University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-963-9241-84-8.

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