Ernst Edward Aurel Stein (19 September 1891, in
Jaworzno
Jaworzno is a city in southern Poland, near Katowice. It lies in the Silesian Highlands, on the Przemsza river (a tributary of the Vistula). Jaworzno belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland. The city is situated in the Silesian Voivod ...
– 25 February 1945, in
Fribourg
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, twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France)
, website = www.ville-fribourg.ch
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) was an Austrian-Jewish
Byzantinist
Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. T ...
and a historian of
Late Antiquity
Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English ha ...
.
Ernst was the son of Ernst Eduard Stein and Henrietta Rosalie (née Hein) and the nephew of the Hungarian-born British
archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
Sir
Aurel Stein
Sir Marc Aurel Stein,
( hu, Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at ...
. He married Johanna Brandeis in Vienna on 4 April 1923.
He studied
classical philology
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
and history at the
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
(doctorate 1914), where his teachers included
Ludo Moritz Hartmann
Ludo (Ludwig) Moritz Hartmann (2 March 1865, Stuttgart – 14 November 1924) was an Austrian historian, diplomat and Social Democrat politician. He advocated an anti-metaphysical and materialist approach to history.
Early life
He was the son of th ...
,
Eugen Bormann
Eugen Ludwig Bormann (6 October 1842, Hilchenbach – 4 March 1917, Klosterneuburg) was a German-Austrian historian, known for his work in the field of Latin epigraphy.
He studied at the University of Bonn as a pupil of Otto Jahn and Friedr ...
and
Wilhelm Kubitschek. From 1919 he worked as a lecturer at the university, and in 1927 relocated to
Frankfurt am Main
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as an employee of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission. In 1931 he was named an associate professor of
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
and
ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...
at the
University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...
, then afterwards, taught classes as a visiting professor in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
and at
Catholic University in Washington D.C. In 1937 he was appointed professor of Byzantine history at the
University of Leuven. For a period of time, he lived in France under an alias, and in 1942 moved to
Geneva
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, where he taught classes up until his death in 1945.
Selected works
* ''Studien zur Geschichte des Byzantinischen Reiches, vornehmlich unter den kaisern Justinus II u. Tiberius Constantinus'', 1919 – Studies on the history of the Byzantine Empire, mainly involving the emperors
Justinian II
Justinian II ( la, Iustinianus; gr, Ἰουστινιανός, Ioustinianós; 668/69 – 4 November 711), nicknamed "the Slit-Nosed" ( la, Rhinotmetus; gr, ὁ Ῥινότμητος, ho Rhinótmētos), was the last Eastern Roman emperor of the H ...
and
Tiberius Constantinus.
* ''Untersuchungen über das officium der prätorianerpräfektur seit Diokletian'', 1922 – Investigations on the
officium of the
praetorian prefecture since
Diocletian
Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...
.
* ''Geschichte des spätromischenn Reiches'', 1928 – History of the Late Roman Empire.
* ''Fasti des römischen Deutschland unter dem Prinzipat'' (as editor, with
Emil Ritterling and
Edmund Groag
Edmund Groag (2 February 1873, in Prerau – 19 August 1945, in Vienna) was an Austrian classical scholar, who specialized in Roman history.
From 1892 he studied history and philology at the University of Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 18 ...
, 1932) –
Fasti
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of Roman
Germania
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under the
Principate
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...
.
* ''Histoire du Bas-Empire'' (with
Jean-Rémy Palanque
Jean-Rémy Palanque (7 March 1898 in Marseille – 2 June 1988, Aix-en-Provence) was a professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Letters at Montpellier, then at the University of Aix-en-Provence.
He was a member of the Institute, the Acad ...
; 2 volumes, 1949–59) – History of the Late Empire.
* ''Untersuchungen zur spätbyzantinischen Verfassungs- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte'' (preface by Jean-Rémy Palanque, 1962) – Studies on the Late Byzantine constitutional and economic history.
* ''Opera minora selecta'' (preface by Jean-Rémy Palanque, 1968).
He also made contributions to the multi-volume ''Inscriptiones trium Galliarum et Germaniarum latinae'' (primary author
Otto Hirschfeld
Otto Hirschfeld (March 16, 1843 – March 27, 1922) was a German epigraphist and professor of ancient history who was a native of Königsberg.
In 1863 received a doctorate from the University of Königsberg, and in 1869 became a professor at the ...
).
HathiTrust Digital Library
(publications)
References
External links
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1891 births
1945 deaths
People from Jaworzno
University of Vienna alumni
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Catholic University of America faculty
Academic staff of the Old University of Leuven
20th-century Austrian historians
Austrian Byzantinists
Scholars of Byzantine history