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Abstract
The nineteenth-century pioneer and only expert in Byzantine Studies in the territory of presentday Latvia, the Baltic German classical philologist Eduard Kurtz, was born in Mitau (Mītava, Jelgava) on December 20, 1845 into the family of a local teacher, Johann Heinrich Kurtz and Wilhelmine Auguste (née Jacobi), as the seventh of eleven children.
Published Online: 2008-02-07
Published in Print: 2005-10-25
© 2005 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, München und Leipzig
