Ernst Stein
Ernst Edward Aurel Stein was an Austrian-Jewish Byzantinist and a historian of Late Antiquity.
Ernst was the son of Ernst Eduard Stein and Henrietta Rosalie and the nephew of the Hungarian-born British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein. He married Johanna Brandeis in Vienna on 4 April 1923.
He studied classical philology and history at the University of Vienna, where his teachers included Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Eugen Bormann and Wilhelm Kubitschek. From 1919 he worked as a lecturer at the university, and in 1927 relocated to Frankfurt am Main as an employee of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission. In 1931 he was named an associate professor of Byzantine and ancient history at the University of Berlin, then afterwards, taught classes as a visiting professor in Free [University of Brussels (1834–1969)|Brussels] and at Catholic University in Washington D.C. In 1937 he was appointed professor of Byzantine history at the University of Leuven (1834–1968)|University of Leuven]. For a period of time, he lived in France under an alias, and in 1942 moved to Geneva, where he taught classes up until his death in 1945.
Selected works
- Studien zur Geschichte des Byzantinischen Reiches, vornehmlich unter den kaisern Justinus II u. Tiberius Constantinus, 1919 - Studies on the history of the Byzantine Empire, mainly involving the emperors Justin II and Tiberius Constantinus.
- Untersuchungen über das officium der prätorianerpräfektur seit Diokletian, 1922 - Investigations on the officium of the praetorian prefecture since Diocletian.
- Geschichte des spätromischenn Reiches, 1928 - History of the Late Roman Empire.
- Fasti des römischen Deutschland unter dem Prinzipat - Fasti of Roman Germania under the Principate.
- Histoire du Bas-Empire - History of the Late Empire.
- Untersuchungen zur spätbyzantinischen Verfassungs- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Studies on the Late Byzantine constitutional and economic history.
- Opera minora selecta.