Alexander Beihammer

Alexander Daniel Beihammer (born March 19, 1970 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian Byzantine scholar who teaches at the University of Cyprus and Notre Dame . His areas of expertise include document theory , Muslim-Byzantine relations, and the institutional and social changes in the Frankish territories of the Byzantine Empire.

After completing his master's degree at the University of Vienna with the subjects of Arabic and Islamic Studies as well as Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology, Beihammer completed the course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , which he completed in 1995 with the state examination. He was able to combine the intensive training in the historical auxiliary sciences with his other subjects in the dissertation “News on Byzantine Documentation in Arabic Sources (565–811)” and receive his doctorate in September 1999. Byzantine diplomacy remained a focus of his research. This includes his collaboration on the new edition of the Dölgerchen " Regesta of the Imperial Documents of the Eastern Roman Empire". In theProsopography of the Middle Byzantine period is one of the external collaborators.

Initially a member of the Institute for Historical Research, and then from 1997 to 2001 the Commission for Byzantine Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , he went to the University of Cyprus as a visiting lecturer in September 2001, where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Byzantine History on March 1, 2003. In 2008 he turned down an offer to Vienna and became an associate professor in Nicosia ; He became a full professor in February 2015, but has been on leave since August 2015 to teach and research in Indiana.

Publications (selection)

• News on the Byzantine document system in Arabic sources (565–811) (= Poikila byzantina. Vol. 17). Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-3011-2 .
• Source-critical investigations on the Egyptian surrender treaties of the years 640–646 , (= Austrian Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Class, meeting reports. Vol. 671). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7001-2875-4 .
• Greek letters and documents from Cyprus during the Crusader period. The collection of forms of a royal secretary in the Vaticanus Palatinus Graecus 367 (= sources and studies on the history of Cyprus. Vol. 57). Cyprus Research Center, Nicosia 2007, ISBN 978-9963-0-8107-3 .

Web links

• Beihammer, Alexander Daniel .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Page at the University of Notre Dame
• Curriculum vitae and list of publications (PDF download, English)
• A. Beihammer on ResearchGate .
• Beihammers page on academia.edu .