Albrecht Berger (Byzantinist)

Albrecht Berger (born September 26, 1957 in Munich ) is a German Byzantinist .

Albrecht Berger studied from 1976 to 1981 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich the subjects of Byzantine Studies , Early Christian and Byzantine Art History and Latin Philology of the Middle Ages. From 1984 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin . In 1987 he received his doctorate there with studies on the Patria Konstantinupoleos . In 1988 he received the Ernst Reuter Prize for his dissertation. In 1993 he completed his habilitation in Byzantine Studies at the Free University of Berlin. From 1992 to 1997 he was a consultant for Byzantine Studies at the German Archaeological Institute . Since 2002 he has been teaching as a professor at the University of Munich. Berger has been editor of the Byzantine Journal since 2004 and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2006.

Albrecht Berger is the son of the Indologist Hermann Berger and brother of the Slavist Tilman Berger . He is the father of the poetry slammer Johannes Berger .

Fonts

Monographs

• The bath in the Byzantine period (= Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia. Volume 27). Institute for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology, Munich 1982 (extended version of the master's thesis).
• Investigations on the Patria Konstantinupoleos (= Poikila Byzantina. Volume 8). Habelt, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-7749-2357-4 (also dissertation, Free University Berlin 1987).
• Leontios Presbyteros of Rome: The Life of Saint Gregory of Agrigento. Critical edition, translation and commentary (= Berlin Byzantine Works. Volume 60). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002753-3 (also habilitation thesis, Freie Universität Berlin 1992).
• Constantinople. History, topography, religion (= locations in antiquity and Christianity. Volume 3). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-777-21027-8 .
• Accounts of Medieval Constantinople. The Patria (= Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Volume 24). Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2013, ISBN 978-0-674-72481-5 .

Editorships

• Life and works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar. Introduction, critical edition and translation (= Millennium Studies. Volume 7). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-018445-1 .
• with Sergei Mariev, Günter Prinzing and Alexander Riehle: Koinotaton Doron. The late Byzantium between powerlessness and cultural prosperity (1204–1461) (= Byzantine Archive. As a supplement to the Byzantine Journal. Volume 31). De Gruyter, Berlin 2016. ISBN 3-11-046953-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Albrecht Berger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site at the University of Munich (LMU)
• Berger, Albrecht .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .