Andreas Rhoby

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Andreas Rhoby (born October 1, 1974 in Wiener Neustadt ) into an Austrian Byzantine .

Career

He studied after graduation in 1993 at Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , History and German as a foreign language at the University of Vienna and the University of Athens . In 1997 he obtained his MA in Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies, and in 2000 he received his doctorate in Byzantine Studies. The training as an "academic Balkanologist" took place at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (2004–2006). After completing his studies, he worked, among other things, on the lexicon of Byzantine graces . In 2008 he completed his habilitation.

He works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Institute for Medieval Research , and is deputy head of the Byzantium Research department. He is also a private lecturer at the University of Vienna and chairman of the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae commission and one of the coordinators of the Inscriptiones Graecae Aevi Byzantini commission of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines .

He is the author of numerous monographs and around 100 articles and editor of several anthologies. His scientific interests are Byzantine literature (especially poetry), epigraphy , lexicography, Byzantium and Austria and general Byzantine cultural history. The complete recording of the inscribed Byzantine epigrams (600–1500 AD) in four volumes, which were published by the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is of fundamental importance.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compilation of the Byzantine epigrams
personal data
SURNAME Rhoby, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1st October 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt