Eduard Schwartz, “Zur Geschichte des Athanasius”
Eduard Schwartz, „Zur Geschichte des Athanasius, I-IX“ in Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse (Göttingen, 1904-1911); reprinted in Schwartz’s Gesammelte Schriften, Dritter Band: Zur Geschichte des Athanasius (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1959).
Between 1904-1911, Eduard Schwartz published in 9 installments his analysis of the ancient sources concerning the life of Athanasius. These were collected and reprinted in 1959 in volume 3 of his collected works (Gesammelte Schriften). The chart below lists the original location of the nine parts (designated originally I-IX) and their corresponding location in the collected works. In the latter they keep the same order and each section becomes a chapter (1-9) with a title added to convey its contents. The entire series is in German. Part 4 was not reprinted (at the author’s request) as the contents had been expanded on and updated in the second edition of his book Kaiser Constantin und die christliche Kirche (1936). Also only sections of part 7 (pp. 354-359 and 365-374) were reprinted.1
| Zur Geschichte des Athanasius | Date | pp. | Gesammelte Schriften, Band 3 (1959) | pp. |
| I. | 1904 | 333-356 | 1. Die Osterbriefe | 1-29 |
| II. | 1904 | 357-391 | 2. Die Sammlung des Theodosius Diaconus | 30-72 |
| III. | 1904 | 391-401 | 3. Aktenbeilagen in Athan. Handschriften | 73-85 |
| IV. | 1904 | 518-547 | 4. Konstantins Aufstieg zur Alleinherrschaft | 86 |
| V. | 1905 | 164-187 | 5. Die Quellen über den melitianischen Streit | 87-116 |
| VI. | 1905 | 257-299 | 6. Dokumente des arianischen Streits bis 325 | 117-168 |
| VII. | 1908 | 305-374 | 7. Das antiochenische Synodalschreiben von 325 | 169-187 |
| VIII. | 1911 | 367-426 | 8. Von Nicaea bis zu Konstantins Tod | 188-264 |
| IX. | 1911 | 469-522 | 9. Von Konstantins Tod bis Sardika 342 | 265-334 |
Created 5/6/2025 by JSW
- The reason given (p. 169) for the shortening of section VII in the reprint was that the original piece had been written in a polemical mode because the newly discovered Syriac material had been declared a forgery by Adolph von Harnack in an earlier publication of the Nachrichten, and Schwartz had written his piece to argue for its authenticity. The polemical sections were thought by the compilers of the Gesammelte Schriften (Walther Eltester and Hans-Dietrich Altendorf) to be no longer relevant since the material had by the 1950s become generally accepted as authentic.
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