Armin Hohlweg

Armin Hohlweg (born April 10, 1933 in Bayreuth ) is a German Byzantinist .

Armin Hohlweg attended schools in Bayreuth and Munich and graduated from the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in 1951 . He then studied Protestant theology from the winter semester 1951/52 to the summer semester 1952 at the University of Erlangen , before studying classical philology, history and Byzantine studies at the University of Munich from the winter semester 1952/53 . In September / October 1957 he passed the scientific examination for teaching at secondary schools . He then worked from 1957 to 1963 as an assistant at the Institute for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Munich. On June 28, 1962, he received his doctorate in Munich under Hans-Georg Beck . From 1963 to 1976 he taught Byzantine Studies at the University of Mainz . In 1970 he completed his habilitation in Munich. In 1972 he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor in Mainz. From 1976 to 2001 he held the chair for Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Munich. From 1978 to 1990 he was editor of the Byzantine Journal .

His research areas include the history of Byzantine philosophy as well as the intellectual history and philosophy of the late Byzantine period. His best-known work is the Tusculum lexicon of Greek and Latin authors of antiquity and the Middle Ages , edited together with Wolfgang Buchwald and Otto Prinz .

Publications

• Contributions to the administrative history of the Eastern Roman Empire under the Comnenes , Miscellanea Byzantinia Monacensia 1, Munich, Institute for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology 1965 (= dissertation).
• On the history of leprosy in Byzantium. In: Jörn Henning Wolf (ed.): Leprosy, leprosy, Hansen's disease. A Changing Problem of Humanity, Part II: Essays. Würzburg 1987 (= catalogs of the German Museum of Medical History , supplement 1), pp. 69–78.
• Wolfgang Buchwald, Armin Hohlweg, Otto Prinz: Tusculum Lexicon of Greek and Latin Authors of Antiquity and the Middle Ages , Munich, Heimeran 1963; Unabridged paperback edition, Reinbek, Rowohlt 1974; 3. edit again. u. exp. Edition Munich, Artemis & Winckler 1982. (French translation: Dictionnaire des auteurs latins grecs et de l'Antiquité et du Moyen Âge Turnhout, Brepols 1991, Modern Greek translation. Tusculum λεξικόν Ελλήνων και Λατίνων συγγραφέων της αρχαιότητας και του μεσαίωνα , Athens, Fourlas 2003, ISBN 960-85321-0-8 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Hohlweg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hollow way, Armin .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .