A Life in Ancient Greek: The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase (1780-1864)

This LAGOOS project has at its core the discovery of 9 volumes of the private diary of celebrated Hellenist Karl Benedikt Hase (1780-1864), written in Ancient Greek and preserved at the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, Weimar. Hase is recognised as one of the foremost Greek scholars in the French academia of his time. Specialists of Late Antique and Byzantine history and literature applaud the outstanding value of his work as an editor and commentator. They have also, however, identified him as the perpetrator of a series of forgeries on documents of Byzantine history that have been a centre of discussion since the early 20th century. Historians of European Hellenism and Philhellenism have also highlighted Hase’s influence within the lively Greek networks of Paris in the wake of Europe’s New Humanist movement. He was a key player in the city’s extensive philhellenic networks on the eve of the Greek Revolution.
Hase’s Ancient Greek diary was known previously only from a series of short excerpts, but it has long been acknowledged as a document of extraordinary significance for the above-mentioned areas of historical and philological research (Ancient Greek philology, History of Classical and Byzantine Scholarship and the History of Philhellenism). This project will make the surviving text of the diary along with the existing excerpts available to scholarship for the first time in a digital edition. Building on this philological groundwork, the project will undertake a series of detailed studies designed to advance our knowledge in the three areas of scholarship that have already acknowledged their need of access to the document.
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