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Miroslav MarcovichAuthor(s): David SansoneSource: Gnomon, 73. Bd., H. 8 (2001), pp. 746-748Published by: Verlag C.H.Beck

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74*>

D. Sansone: iroslav arcovich

MIROSLAV MARCOVICH f

Miroslav

Marcovich,

rofessor meritus

n

the

Department

f

the

Classics t

theUniver-

sity

f

llinois t

Urbana-Champaign,

ied on

14

June

001 at the

ge

of

82. He was born

in

Belgrade

n

18

March

19 9.

He is survived

y

his

gracious

wife

Vera,

whomhe married

on

30

May

1948

nd who was to

be

the

unfailingompanion

f theremainder

f his

ife,

and his

on,

Dr.

Dragoslav

Michael)

Marcovich,

chemist.

Miroslav he

enjoyed

he

nformality

fAmericanife nd

was

happy

o be called

by

his

first

ame,

r

even

by

thenickname iro studied lassics t

the

University

f

Belgrade,

earning

bachelor's

egree

n

1942,

n

especially

ifficultime.

n

the

following ear

he

was

appointed

Assistant or

Byzantine

tudies

o

the

great

Byzantinist

eorg

Ostro-

gorsky.

uthe

was

required

o

spend

herest fthewar

years erving

s

a

translator

n

the

army eadquartersf Marshal ito,ofwhich ervice e later rofessedo be notparticu-

larly

roud.

After hewar he returnedo the

University

f

Belgrade,

here

he

held the

post

of

Lecturer

n

Classicsfrom

946

until

954.

During

hat ime

e

explored

hemona-

steries nd archives f

Dalmatia,

ooking

or

Greek nd Latin

manuscripts.

mong

he

fruits

f

that esearch ere

a

monograph,

ie

byzantinischen

rkundenm Staatsarchiv

Ragus,

nd critical ditions f the

Latin

poems

ftwo Croatian

umanists,

arkoMarulic

(1450-1524),

who

appears

o have been the man

who

coined

heterm

psychology',

nd

Franjo

Bozicevic

FranciscoNatalis),

younger

ontemporary

f Marulic.

Full

biblio-

graphical

etails or hese nd

many

f

theother

ublications

o be mentioned

elowcan

be found

n

CS

18,

1993,

-17

nd

19,1994,

.

In

1954

Miroslav

went

o

India,

where e was a

Visiting

cholar

t Visvabharatiniver-

sity,

n

Santiniketan,

he chool

founded

y

Rabindranath

agore

ndwhoseChancellor

t

the timewasJawaharlal ehru.Therehe translatedheBhagavad-GïtântoSpanish nd

intoSerbo-Croatian. ot

being

n

enthusiastic

upporter

f theCommunist

overnment

in

Yugoslavia,

e

preferred

ot

to returno his homeland nd

n

1955

he

accepted

he

po-

sition fProfessor

f

Classics nd

Philosophy

t theUniversidad e Los Andes

n

Mérida,

Venezuela.The terms f

employment

ere

very

ttractive,

roviding

handsome

alary

and the

opportunity

o

spend

heMichaelmas erm ach

year

n

Cambridge,

hereMiros-

lav

enjoyed

he

vailability

f

splendid

ibrariesnd

easy

access

o

the

great

ollections

f

Greek

manuscripts.

uring

his

period,

which asteduntil

1969,

Miroslavwrote he RE

article n

Heraclitus,

ater

ssued

separately

s

a

monograph,

nd

completed

is editio

maior f

Heraclitus,

hich

has

sincebeen

published

n

a revised talian

ranslation,

ssued

in

an editio

minor

nd,

most

recently,eprinted

ith resh

ddenda,

orrigenda

nd a se-

lect

bibliography

or

1967-2000

n

the eries nternationalre-Platonictudies

Sankt

Au-

gustin 001). n 1962-63,t the nvitationfHansHeiter,MiroslavwasVisitingcholar t

the

University

f

Bonn,

where

e

began

work n

his

major

dition

f

Hippolytus'

efuta-

tio omnium aeresium.

his

edition

was

completed

n

Cambridge,

utwas not

published

until

986,

fter

Miroslav

ad

moved o the

University

f llinois.

This move ook

place

n

1969,

when

Alexander

uryn

etired

nd Miroslavwas invited

to come o llinois s his uccessor. is

appointment

s Professor as

supported y

enthu-

siastic etters rom

Henry

Chadwick,

Harold

Cherniss,

W.

K. C.

Guthrie,

ans

Herter,

Geoffrey

irk,

Hugh Lloyd-Jones,

odolfo

Mondolfo,

.

H.

Sandbach,

riedrich olm-

sen,

Gregory

lastos nd Leonard

Woodbury.

His

teaching

areer

t Illinois

astedfor

twenty ears,

ntil

his retirement

n

1989.

During

hat imehe served s Head of theDe-

partment

f the Classics for

the

years

1973-1977-

His

energeticeadership

s Head

brought

bout

n ncrease

n

the ize ofthe

Department

nd

stunning

mprovements

n

en-

rollmentsnClassicscourses, uchthat heDepartmentecame heobjectofsuspicious

envy

n the

part

f other

epartments

n

the

College.

Whilehe was Head he founded he

journal

llinoisClassical

Studies,

f which

he

served s

editor

rom

976

until

1982

and

again

from

988

until

1992,

himself

yping

n

an IBM

Selectric he entire ext f volu-

mes

5-7

to

produce

he

amera-ready

opy

He was a member fthe

Advisory

ommittee

for

heThesaurus

inguae

Graecae

from

973

until

1980

and he was invited o serve s







D.

Sansone:

iroslav arcovich

747

Visiting

rofessort other nstitutions

n a

number f

occasions,

ncluding

he

University

of North Carolina

as

Paddison

Visiting rofessor,975),

the

University

f

Michigan(1979-80),Tel AvivUniversityas SacklerFellow,1991)and Trinity ollege,Dublin

(1984).

n this ast

position

e iked o refer o himselfs

c

Visiting egius

Professor1,

s he

was

visiting rinity

n

exchange

or

Regius

Professor

ohn

illon,

who was

himself isit-

ing

t llinois.He received

number

f

awards nd

honors,

ulminating

n the onferraif

an

Honorary egree

of Doctor

of

HumaneLetters

y

the

University

f llinois

n

1994.

These honors ncluded he SilverCross

(Mt.

Athos,

1963),

a

Guggenheim ellowship

(1983),

National ndowment or

heHumanities

ellowship

1990)

and an

appointment

as Albert instein

isiting

ellow

by

the srael

Academy

f Sciences

1989-90).

n

1993

and

1994

his friendsnd

colleagues

evoted

wo volumes f

CS,

'his'

ournal,

o a Fest-

schrift

n his

honor,

onsisting

f

fifty-five

ontributions

y

distinguished

cholars rom

over dozencountries.

Before isretirementiroslav

ublished

remarkableumber

f

articles nd

books,

n-

cluding hree-WordTrimeternGreekTragedy1984), tudiesnGraeco-Roman eligi-

ons and Gnosticism

1988),

Studies

n

Greek

Poetry

1991)

and editions f

Hippolytus'

Refutatio

1986),

heAlcestis arcinonensis

1988),

Prosper

f

Aquitaine's

e

providentia

Dei

(1989),

Athenagoras' egatiopro

Christianis

1990)

and

Pseudo-Justin's

ohortatio

ad

Graecos,

De

monarchiand Oratio

ad Graecos

1990).

But thiswas

only prelude

o

the

stonishing

urst f

activity

hat

nsued

n

thedecade

following

is retirement

rom

teaching,

henhe

completed

ritical

ditions f

a

number

f Greek uthors.

n most ases

he had collated

he

manuscripts

fthese

uthors

uring

is

years

n

Europe.

He was a tire-

less and

accurate

alaeographer

ho

prided

himself

n his

ability

o

read

any

handwith

relative

ase.

Everyone

new

hathe was

preparing

desperately

eedednew edition

f

the ext f

Diogenes

Laertius

nd

was

frequently

sked

by

scholarswhom

met t earn-

ed

gatherings

Miroslav

arely

ook

time

way

from

is

rigorous

esearchchedule

o at-

tendprofessional eetingsimself whenhis editionwouldappear. The last etterMi-

roslav

eceived

rom is friend

douarddes

Places,

efore he atter

ied

n his

hundredth

year,

ncluded he

urgent lea,

«J'attend

iogene ».)

Miroslav

ad

ong

ince ollated

he

manuscripts

f

D. L.

and

of the

cMagnum

xcerptum',

hecodex

unicus f whichhe

was

the

first o edit.For

reasons

hatwerenever

learhe

keptpostponing

is workon that

edition,

urning

is ttention

nstead o

publishing

n

quick

uccession

ditions

f

Theodo-

rus

Prodromus' e

Rhodanthes

t Dosiclis

Teubner

992), ustin

artyr's pologiae ro

Christianis

1994),

Tatian's

Oratio d

Graecos

1995),

Theophilus

f Antioch'sAd Auto-

lycum

1995),

Clement

f Alexandria's

rotrepticus

1995)

and

Justin

Martyr's

ialogus

cum

Tryphone

1997)

as

wellas

his Patristic

extual

Criticism,

ol.

1

1994),

onsisting

f

discussions

f and

solutions o

scoresof

paradigmatic

extual

roblems

n

the Church

Fathers

hose

workshe had

edited.

It wasonly fter isdoctorsoldhim in1997) hat ehad sixmonths o ive hat ede-

cided

t was

time o turn

is attention

eriously

o

completing

he

ong-awaited

iogenes

Laertius.

He had made

arrangements

ith

me

regarding

hatneeded o be done

in the

event hat

he did not

ive o

complete

is

work.

Fortunately

orme

and

for he

cholarly

world

n

general)

Miroslavwas able to

see his

Diogenes

Laertius

hrough

o

completion.

t

was

published

y

Teubner

t the end of

1999

in two volumes

omprising

more than

1200

ages.

A

third

olume,

ontaining

he

ndexes,

as been

completed

nd

will

appear

shortly.

ut Miroslav

was not

finished.

ndeed,

t

seemed

hathe would

never e finished.

In 2000

appeared

is edition

f

Athenagoras'

e

resurrectione

ortuorum

Vigiliae

hri-

stianae

uppl.

53)

and

in 2001

his

Teubner

ext

now

published

y

Saur

Verlag)

of

Eu-

stathius

acrembolites'

e

Hysmines

t

Hysminiae

moribus as

published.

nd,

before

his death

he had

completed

ditions

f

Clement f

Alexandria's

aedagogus

nd of the

eight ooksofOrigen'sContraCelsum, oth fwhich reexpectedo bepublished ith-

out

too much

elay,

nd

he had made

rrangements

or he

publication

fa revised dition

ofhis

ext ftheDavidias

f

MarkoMarulic.

Miroslav

egarded

he

biographicalpproach

o the

history

f

scholarship

ith

mix-

ture f

amusement

nd

contempt

nd he would

not have

approved

he nclusion

t this

point

of the

personal

ignette

ustomarilyppended

o enliven

otices ike this.Those







748

Personalien

who were

cquainted

withMiroslav nowwhathe

was

like;

those

who

werenot cannot

hope

to know.He

would,however,

ave

expected

n

appraisal

f

his work.As

I

am not

qualifiedoprovide uch nappraisal,will eave t to thosewho are o qualified.nstead,

I will

close

by noting

hatMiroslav

imself,

hose

udgement

n thesematters as unusu-

ally

ound,

onsidered is edition f

Athenagoras' egatio

pro

Christianis

o be his finest

work.He felt

special

kinship

ith hedevoutChristian

pologist

who was

fully

onver-

santwith he

works

f theGreek

hilosophers.

is own

mastery

f those

works f

philo-

sophy

nd his

stonishing emory

nabled

im

o

engage

n what ne

reviewer

eferredo

as

Quellenforschung

f

unprecedentedhoroughness'

nd his meticulous

alaeographical

skills

roduced

he

most ccurate ccount f the vidence vailable

or

Athenagoras'

ext

thatwe are ver

ikely

o

possess.

Champaign,

llinois

David Sansone

PERSONALIEN

Frau Dr.

Helga

Dittmers-Herdej

rgen,

om,

st am

27.

Juli

2001 m

64.

Lebensjahr

e-

storben.

Der Moore Professor

f Latin and Classics m Amherst

ollege

Peter

K.

Marshall st

am

9.

April

001 m

67.

Lebensjahr estorben.

Der Professeur onoraire

n der Universitätaris-Sorbonnend

Direktor es Institut

de

Papyrologie

r.

Jean

chererst m

21.

April

001

gestorben.

Der ord. Professorer Klassischenhilologien der UniversitäteipzigDr.Ekkehard

Stärk st m

16.

September

001 m

44.

Lebensjahr

estorben.

Der Professor f Classics

an der Universität

ottingham

r. ThomasWiedemannst

am 28.

Juni

001

gestorben.

Der Professor er

Klassischen

hilologie

n der FreienUniversität

erlin

Dr.

Werner

Eisenhut eiertm

30.

Januar

002

einen

0.

Geburtstag.

Der Professor er

Klassischen

hilologie

n der Universität

iel

Dr.

Herbert

uhnke

feiertm

19.

Februar

002 einen

0.

Geburtstag.

Der em. ord. Professor

ür Römisches nd

Bürgerliches

echt

an der Universität

Tübingen

r.

Hermann

ange

feiertm

24.

Januar

002 einen

0.

Geburtstag.

Der LeitendeBibliotheksdirektor

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der

Herzog August

Bibliothek

n

Wolfenbüttel

Dr. Paul Raabe feiertm

21. Februar 002 einen

5.

Geburtstag.

Der Honorarprofessorer AltenGeschichte nd Wissenschaftlicheat an der Eötvös-

Universität

udapest

Dr.

László

Várady

eiertem

21.

Februar 001

seinen

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tag;

us diesemAnlaß

wurde

hm

derPro Universitate-Ordenerliehen.

Der Professor

erKlassischen

hilologie

n derUniversität ünster

r.

AlfonsWeische

feiertm

17.Januar

002 einen

0.

Geburtstag.

Der

em.

ord.

Professor

er

Kirchengeschichte,

atristik

nd

Hagiographie

n

der

Freien

Universitäterlin

r. UlrichWickert eiertm

4.

Februar

002

einen

5.

Geburtstag.

Dem em.ord.Professor

erKlassischen

hilologie

n derUniversität

ürich

r.

Walter

Burkert st

von der

University

f

Chicago

der

'HonoraryDegree'

eines Doctor of

HumaneLetters' erliehen

orden.

Der ord. Professor

er

Byzantinistik

n der Universität

u Köln

Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter

Schreiner

st zum Präsidenten er Association nternationale

es Études

Byzantines e-

wähltworden.

Der Privatdozenter

AltenGeschichten derUniversitätasel

Dr. LukasThommenst

daselbst

um Professorrnannt

orden.

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derUniversität

reiburg

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