Split up DER griechischen Historiker

The Splits up DER griechischen Historiker (“Fragments of the Greek historians”), more known under the abbreviation FGrH , are a collection of fragments of works of the Greek Historiens , assembled by the German philologist Felix Jacoby (1876 - 1959). They are mainly founded on the Fragmenta Graecorum Historicorum Carl Müller (1841 - 1870).

Jacoby undertakes FGrH in 1923. Its goal is to compile the remaining whole of the traces Greek historians now lost: found quotations, fragments, summaries, etc These fragments are equipped with a Critical apparatus, are annotated and briefly commented on, but no translation is provided.

Jacoby had initially envisaged a plan in five parts. With its death, in 1959,15 volumes are appeared but only three parts are completed:

authors 1-63: Mythographe S and Chronicler S;
authors 64-261: historians;
authors 262-856: Autobiography S, local stories and works relating to nonGreek subjects.

The fourth part was to be devoted to the biographies and the literature antique dealer; the fifth with the historical geography. A group of philologists coordinated by Guido Schepens, of the catholic university of Leuwen, was harnessed with the continuation of the project; three volumes are appeared.

FGrH remain a reference impossible to circumvent for the researchers in Greek history. They also made it possible to reveal sources hitherto a41dernier $c-b1, e,10 $c-b26 ce $c-b16 $c-b43, bn,84 ignored, like the Atthidographes.

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