GERLAND, gallant, Ernst Wilhelm Ferdinand, German Byzantine scholar: b. Imi hausen, Hesse-Nassau, 19 May 1870. He was educated in the public schools of Partschendorf and Fulnek, the gymnasia at Troppau, Silesia and Halberstadt, Prussia, and the universities of Berlin and Jena. In 1893 he took up his duties as teacher at the gymnasium of Hom von der Hohe, being made professor five years later. For many years he has been en gaged in editing the collections of Gelzer 'Teilnehmerlisten der ahem Konzilien,' and 'Notitix episcopatuum' for the Prussian Academy of Sciences under the title, 'Corpus notitiarum episcopatuum ecclesix orientalis Grwcm,' in collaboration with August Burck hardt, Nicola Radojii6, and Peter Thomsen. Under the auspices of the Schonhauser Fund he traveled for special studies to the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, Vienna, and to the archives and libraries of Venice and Macerata in 1897-98, and to Florence in 1900.
He is the author of Was Archiv des Herzogs von Kandia im ki niglichen Staatsarchiv zu Venedig' (1899);
des lateinischen Kaiserreiches von Konstantinopel' (1905) ; 'Histoire de la noblesse cretoise' (1907; Italian trans., (Bolletino araldico,' 1908). He col laborated in 'Historisches Jahrbuch der Garres Gesellschaft' (1899) ; 'Nene Jahrbiicher fur das klassische Altertum) (1902-04) ;