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 German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

. Returning from

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he studied Latin and German history in

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

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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 (Latin for "Historical Monuments of Germany"), frequently abbreviated MGH, is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of parts of Northwestern, Central and Souther ...

'', 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 to the 10th century. They marked the start of the Middle Ages of Europ ...

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

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in 1969 there finally appeared in Weimar his editions of Sextus Amarcius's ''Sermones'', over which he had been labouring since 1955. In 1973 appeared his edition of Eupolemius's ''Messiade''. He died in Bernried.

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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