Karl Manitius (23 July 1899 – 26 December 1979) was a German historian. He was the son of the historian and Latinist Max Manitius (1858–1933), born in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

. Returning from

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

he studied Latin and German history in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

. His publication of 1924 directed international attention to the Frankish chroniclers of the

Carolingian The Carolingian dynasty (; known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charlemagne, grandson of mayor Charles Martel and a descendant of the Arnulfing and Pippi ...

epoch. From 1924 to 1945 he taught history in many ''Gymnasien'' and state high schools, in Leipzig, Waldenburg in Saxony and eventually in Dresden. Through collaboration with Fritz Rörig he joined the team producing the ''

Monumenta Germaniae Historica The ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'' (''MGH'') is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empir ...

'', where he concentrated on

Early Medieval The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th or early 6th century to the 10th century. They marked the start of the Mi ...

literary texts. In 1958 appeared his editions of Gunzo's ''Epistola ad Augienses'', and

Anselm of Besate Anselm of Besate (''Anselmus Peripateticus'', "Anselm the Peripatetic") was an 11th-century churchman and rhetorician. Anselm was born at Besate shortly after the year 1000 to a notable local family. He describes his genealogy in detail. He was re ...

's, ''Rhetorimachia''. In several articles and monographs he examined the history of medieval libraries.For example ''Handschriften antiker Autoren in mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskatalogen'', Leipzig 1935. Following his move to

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

in 1969 there finally appeared in Weimar his editions of

Sextus Amarcius Sextus is an ancient Roman ''praenomen'' or "first name". Its standard abbreviation is Sex., and the feminine form would be Sexta. It is one of the numeral ''praenomina'', like Quintus ("fifth") and Decimus ("tenth"), and means "sixth". Although ...

's ''Sermones'', over which he had been labouring since 1955. In 1973 appeared his edition of

Eupolemius ''Eupolemius'' ("Good War") is a Latin epic poem in two books written before the middle of the 12th century and no earlier than the 11th. It is the anonymous work of a German-speaking author and belongs to the genre of epic retellings of Biblical ...

's ''Messiade''. He died in

Bernried Bernried is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf in Bavaria in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. G ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Manitius, Karl Writers from Dresden German medievalists German military personnel of World War I 1899 births 1979 deaths People from the Kingdom of Saxony German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German historians