Karl Hopf (February 19, 1832, in Hamm, Westphalia – August 23, 1873, in

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) or Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf was a

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and an expert in Medieval Greece, both

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and Frankish.

Career

Hopf graduated from the

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, 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

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n and Greek medieval archives to find sources for his works.

Notable works

His notable works include the "History of Greece from the beginning of Middle Ages to the year 1821". It was considered the most important addition made to the knowledge about Byzantine and modern Greek history in the period 1863-1877, when considerable additions had been made. In his 1870 work, Hopf dealt with the migrations of the

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. According to him, after they came from the East, they were first concentrated in the Romanian lands. To escape slavery, they went to Serbia, and the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan dispersed them throughout the

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, as far as Greece.

Sources

* Peter Wirth: Hopf, Carl. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 9. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, S. 609. * Ludwig Streit: Hopf, Karl. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 13. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, S. 102–104.

Works

List of works published by Karl Hopf, listed in catalogue of National library in Berlin

References

External links

* Karl Hopf (ed.
''Chroniques gréco-romanes inédites ou peu connues''
1873 on

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1832 births 1873 deaths German Byzantinists People from the Province of Westphalia German medievalists University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Königsberg People from Hamm German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-historian-stub Scholars of Byzantine history Historians of medieval Greece Historians from the Kingdom of Prussia