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Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer and George Finlay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

J. M. Hussey
J. M. Hussey*
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The collection of Finlay Papers in the British School at Athens though throwing invaluable light on the character of George Finlay and on conditions in the Greece and western Europe of his day, are by no means complete in their coverage. The diaries cover only certain years; the Letter Book records mainly family and business correspondence; the actual copies of surviving letters both to and from Finlay—apart from Finlay to Leake or Leicester Warren—seem to owe their preservation to chance rather than policy. Yet Finlay was no less interested in the history of Trebizond than in Greek topography or in numismatics, and a stray survival among his papers seems to indicate that he had closer relations with Fallmerayer than is suggested by the almost total omission of any reference to him in the works on the Fragmentist (as Fallmerayer called himself). The editor of Fallmerayer’s collected works, his best friend G. M. Thomas (the ‘carissimus Thomas’ of the Tagebücher), does mention the generosity of Fallmerayer’s attitude towards Finlay’s work on Trebizond, but that is about all.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 4: Essays Presented to Sir Steven Runciman , 1978 , pp. 79 - 87
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Copyright ©The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1978

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References

1. Geschichte der Halbinsel Morea während des Mittelalters, I (Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1830), p. III.

2. Leake, W. M., Researches in Greece (London, 1814), pp. 380ff Google Scholar. and passim.

3. Cited by R. G. E. (Saint-Renée) Tallandrier, ‘Publicistes modernes de l’Allemagne. Jacques-Philippe Fallmerayer’, Revue des Deux Mondes, XLII(=XXXIIe année-seconde période, 1862), 132.

4. Hussey, J. M., The Finlay Papers (British School of Archaeology at Athens, Supplementary Volume No. 9 [London, 1974]Google Scholar; cited hereafter as Papm), p. 97, B7 (23). These papers are as yet almost entirely unpublished, but I plan to include the more important ones in my Memoir on Finlay.

5. History of Greece, IV: Medieval Greece and the Empire of Trebizond, ed. H. F. Tozer (Oxford, 1877; first published in 1850; cited hereafter as History), esp. pp. 1–37.

6. Op. cit., p. 2.

7. See the recent comments of I. Dujčev, Cronaca di Monemvasia: introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e note (Istituto di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, Testi, 12, [Palermo, 1976]), pp. XIff.

8. Geschichte des Kaiserthums von Trapezunt (Munich, 1827; cited hereafter as Geschkhte). Finlay’s own copy, like most of the books from his personal library, has pencilled marginalia, unfortunately often somewhat pruned by the binder.

9. Original-Fragmente, Chroniken, Inschriften und onderei Materiale zur Geschischte des Kaiserthums Trapezunt (Munich, 1843–4), Pts. I and II, Abh. d. k. bayr. Akad. d. Wiss., Hist. Cl. Bd. III, Abtheilung III, and Bd. IV, Abth. 1. [cited hereafter as Original-Fragmente].

10. Originally published in 2 vols., Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1845; 2nd ed. with additions and introd. by G. M. Thomas (Stuttgart, 1877); various selections have subsequently appeared (unless otherwise stated, cited hereafter as Fragmente from Thomas’ 2nd ed.).

11. In the Gesammelte Werke, ed. G. M. Thomas, vol. I (Leipzig, 1861).

12. See Fragmente, pp. 1–199.

13. Papers, p. 98, B 7 (33).

14. Papers, p. 32, A 14 (Journal, pp. 45ff.).

15. Papers, p. 78, B 6 (53) and (54).

16. Papers,. 68, B 3 (1), (2), (4), (5).

17. Reprinted in Gesammelte Werke, III, pp. 298–330. Finlay mentions the Augsburger review (Papers, p. 129, E 1, p. 13) but does not seem to have a copy of it in his review book, which was unusual for him.

18. See Hussey, J. M., ‘George Finlay in perspective—a centenary reappraisal’, ABSA, LXX (1975), 135–44.Google Scholar

19. Fragmente, I, 1st ed., p. 22 (Finlay’s copy).

20. The episode is examined in detail by F. Babinger, Der Akademiezwist um Jakob-Philipp Fallmerayer (1851). Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenshaft unter Maximilian II, Bay. Ak. d. Wiss. Philosoph.-Hist. Klasse, Sitz. 1959, Heft 5. See also Seidler, H., Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer’s geistige Entwicklung. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Geistesgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts., Abh. d. Bay Ak. d. Wiss., Philosoph.-Hist. Klasse, N. F. Heft 26 (1947), p. 134 Google Scholar.

21. See Schriften und Tagebücher, ed. H. Feigl and E. Molden, vol. 2 (Munich and Leipzig, 1913), pp. 348ff. The diaries are in the Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, and only short extracts appear to be given in this book.

22. See Papers, pp. 78–9, 136 (55: note that this entry should read ‘Holy Mountain (Athos)’). This, as far as I know, unpublished, letter in Fallmerayer’s hand is among George Finlay’s papers now in the possession of the British School at Athens. I am grateful to the Committee of Management for their permission to edit and publish these papers. I am also particularly indebted to Dr. F. J. Stopp of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, for his help in deciphering the crabbed hand of the Gothic script in which this particular letter is written.

23. Lithograph of Fallmerayer by F. Hickman from the portrait collection of the Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, reproduced in Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer. Byzanz und das Abendland. Ausgewählte Schriften, ed. E. Mika (Vienna, 1943), p. 192. A photograph of Finlay in old age prefaces his History.

24. May 1847.

25. See above, notes 11 and 13. Sumelas is to the south of Trebizond. See also Miller, G. and Rice, D. Talbot, Byzantine Painting at Trebizond (London, 1936), pp. 144ff Google Scholar. and Rice, D. Talbot, ‘Notes on some religious buildings in the city and vilayet of Trebizond’, B, V (1929), 72–7 Google Scholar. On Mount Súmelas in Colchis, see also Original-Fragmente, I, pp. 49ff. and passim, and on the foundation of Sumelas, Dawkins, R. M., The Monks of Athos (London, 1936), pp. 159ff.Google Scholar

26. See Fragmente, II, 1st ed., pp. 1–140 (2nd ed., pp. 233–326). Fallmerayer’s return journey from Constantinople to Thessalonica was via the Holy Mountain (Athos).

27. On the Panagia Theoskepastos, see Original-Fragmente, I, pp. 66–7 and II, p. 96; Miller, G. and Rice, D. Talbot, op. cit., pp. 40–65 and p. 116 Google Scholar; and Rice, D. Talbot, B, V (1959), 60–1.Google Scholar

28. Fallmerayer did, however, copy some of the inscriptions.

29. The monastery of St. Dionysius was founded by John Alexius Comnenus, the golden bull dating from 1375. See Original-Fragmente, I, pp. 40ff. and 87ff. (text). See also History, IV, pp. 384–5 and R. M. Dawkins, op. cit., pp. 155ff.

30. On Lazaros the Skeuophylax, fl. under the Grand-Comnenus Alexius III (1349–90), see Original-Fragmente, I, pp. 9ff., 17ff. and 71ff. The MS. was found in the Dionysiou monastery.