Г. А. Острогорский i Археологиčский институт им. Н. П. Кондакова в Прага
G. A. Ostrogorsky and N. P. Kondakov Archaeological Institute in Prague

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to George Ostrogorsky, a prominent historian of Byzantium, and deals with his scientific contacts to the members of N. P. Kondakov Archaeological Institute in Prague, mainly G. V. Vernadsky, N. M. Beljaev, N. P. Toll, D. A. Rasovsky, N. E. Andreev. The relationship between G. A. Ostrogorsky and his colleagues is analyzed on the basis of 292 sheets of unpublished Ostrogorskyís letters written to them between 1926 and 1943, which has not been studied yet. He wrote articles, did proof-readings, helped his German colleagues to get involved in the work. He became a regular member of the Institute and of its managing board. He annually visited Prague to present his reports there. The article covers the ìGermanî period of Ostrogorskyís life from 1928 to 1933. In this time he taught as Privatdozent at Breslau University in Germany. In the year 1931 a question of Ostrogorskyís moving to Prague first arose. In the year 1933, after the establishment of the Nazi regime, this question was being discussed again because of Ostrogorsky's Jewish origin. Then a position of professor at Belgrade University was offered to him and he left Germany. The scholarly works written during the time of the ìGermanî period, show his connections to Russian science. In this time George Ostrogorsky got interested in a large scale of topics of Byzantine history.

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