Andreas Külzer (historian)

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Andreas Külzer (born December 29, 1962 in Leverkusen ) is a German Byzantinist and historical geographer .

Life

Külzer studied at the University of Cologne first legal history , then Byzantine, Ancient, Medieval and Modern History. He completed his Magister Artium in 1990 and received his doctorate in 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he was a research fellow from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Research Foundation . Since 1997 he has been a research assistant at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna. Between 1997 and 2005 he worked in the commission for the Tabula Imperii Byzantini , since 2006 at the newly founded Institute for Byzantium Research. In February 1999 he received his habilitation at the University of Cologne , and in March 2007 he was appointed adjunct professor for Byzantine Studies there.

He gives courses at the Universities of Cologne and Vienna ; In 2002 he was visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Külzer is a board member of the Austrian Byzantine Society.

His publications deal primarily with questions of the historical geography of the Byzantine area as well as with the Byzantine historiography , culture and mentality history .

Fonts

  • Peregrinatio graeca in Terram Sanctam. Studies on pilgrim guides and travelogues about Syria, Palestine and the Sinai from the Byzantine and Metabyzantine times (= studies and texts on Byzantine Studies. Vol. 2). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-631-46784-2 (= dissertation , University of Cologne, 1993).
  • Disputationes graecae contra Iudaeos. Investigations on Byzantine anti-Jewish dialogue literature and its image of the Jews (= Byzantine Archive. Vol. 18). Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07741-8 (= habilitation thesis , University of Cologne, 1998/99).
  • with Klaus Belke , Ewald Kislinger, Maria A. Stassinopoulou (eds.): Byzantina Mediterranea. Festschrift for Johannes Koder on his 65th birthday. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77608-6 .
  • Eastern Thrace (Eurōpē) (= Tabula Imperii Byzantini. Vol. 12; = Memoranda. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Vol. 369). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7001-3945-4 .
  • with Ewald Kislinger and Johannes Koder (eds.): Commercial goods and traffic routes. Aspects of the supply of goods in the eastern Mediterranean, 4th to 15th century (= memoranda. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Vol. 388). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6680-1 .
  • Byzantium. Theiss, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8062-2417-7 .
  • with Leena Mari Peltomaa and Pauline Allen (eds.): Presbeia Theotokou: The Intercessory Role of Mary across Times and Places in Byzantium (4th - 9th Century) (= memoranda. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Vol. 481 ). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7001-7602-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Külzer, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Byzantinist and historical geographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen