Andreas E. Muller

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Andreas Erich Müller (born April 2, 1966 in Munich ) is a German Byzantinist .

Andreas E. Müller studied Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Munich and the University of Vienna from 1985 to 1991 . In 1991 he passed his diploma examination at the University of Vienna. The doctorate took place there in 1995 with the work Di'erythrōn grammatōn tēs theias kai basilikēs cheiros. Diplomatic and historical research into the development of imperial forms of signing in Byzantium . From 1995 to 2009, Müller then worked as a research assistant at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , where he worked on the corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and modern times . In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with the thesis Investigations into the imperial document system in Byzantium . Since September 2009 Müller has held the professorship for Byzantine Studies - auxiliary sciences for the areas of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. There he is also the deputy director of the institute and vice-director of the Classical Studies program.

Müller primarily deals with the history of the early and middle Byzantine period, Byzantine diplomacy and palaeography , the beginnings and the development of Greek typography, and the history of science in his subject.

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