Wiener Studien 137/2024, pp. 285-312, 2024/07/11
Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
On the anniversary “160 years CSEL”, this article traces the making of a critical edition that was worked on under particularly difficult and dramatic circumstances: CSEL 71 (Cassiodori-Epiphanii Historia ecclesiastica tripartita, rec. Walter Jacob, editionem cur. Rudolf Hanslik, Wien 1952). For this purpose, letters written in the years 1933 to 1952 in connection with the work on CSEL 71 and kept in the CSEL archive today were evaluated for the first time. The article thus sheds light on conditions of scientific work during and around the Second World War.