Dölger Franz

Franz Dölger (4 October 1891, Kleinwallstadt – 5 November 1968, Munich) was a German Byzantinist.

From 1931 to 1959, he was a professor at the University of Munich, head of the Munich Byzantine Studies Society, and from 1928 to 1963, editor of the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift ("Byzantine Journal"). He published historical Byzantine texts and conducted research in Byzantine diplomacy, the financial system, agrarian relations, philology, and other topics, as well as the political relations between Byzantium and European countries.

Dölger was the philological-legal scholar within Byzantine studies. He wrote an important study on the authorship of the Greek version of Barlaam and Josaphat.

He did not support the view that Barlaam and Josaphat was translated by Euthymius the Athonite from the Georgian Balavariani. In accordance with Greek tradition, Dölger considered John of Damascus to be the author of this popular Byzantine work.