Claudia Rapp

Prof. Claudia Rapp (February 29, 2020)

Claudia Rapp (born June 20, 1961 in Berlin ) is a German Byzantinist . Since 2011 she has been teaching as a professor at the University of Vienna in the field of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies.

Life

Claudia Rapp was born in West Berlin in 1961. After graduating from high school in 1979, she studied history, ancient Greek, classical philology and Byzantine studies at the Free University of Berlin until 1984. There she learned hagiography from Paul Speck and historical thinking from Ralph-Johannes Lilie . After completing her postgraduate studies at Oxford in 1993, she did her PhD with Cyril Mango on The Vita of St. Epiphanius of Salamis . An Historical and Literary Study . Other important teachers there were James Howard-Johnston and Michael Whitby . Subsequently, she was Assistant Professor at Cornell University from 1993 to 1994 and Assistant Professor of Late Ancient History at UCLA from 1994 to 2001 , Associate Professor there from 2001 to 2006 and Full Professor from 2006 to 2011 . She was also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1997 to 1998, visiting professor at the University of Utrecht in 2002 , in 2004 she held the Belle van Zuylen professorship at the University of Utrecht, and in 2005 she was a fellowship for Byzantine Studies in Dumbarton Oaks , From 2008 to 2009 she was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College , Oxford and in 2009 Senior Visiting Scholar at the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation . In 2010 she was a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2011 she has been Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna , Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies, and heads the Byzantine Research Department at the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2012 she was Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Paris.

Her research interests are cultural and intellectual history, social and religious history, ritual and communication, written culture and late antiquity.

In the field of science organization, Claudia Rapp was involved in organizing the Byzantine Studies Symposium of UCLA from 1995 to 2003, from 1998 to 1999 she was President of the Byzantine Studies Conference and from 2009 to 2010 President of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America . From 1999 to 2010 she chaired the Multicampus Research Group History and Culture of Late Antiquity , a project carried out by all ten California state universities to promote research in the fields of Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium. From 2001 to 2002 she was Deputy Director of the Gustav von Grünebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA and from 2002 to 2007 on the Executive Committee of the US National Committee for Byzantine Studies .

In 2013 Claudia Rapp was elected a corresponding member and in 2014 a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2017 she was appointed a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Awards

In 2015 she received the Wittgenstein Prize endowed with 1.5 million euros .

Fonts (selection)

Storytelling as Spiritual Communication in Early Greek Hagiography: The Use of Diegesis. In: Journal of Early Christian Studies. ISSN 1067-6341 , Vol. 6, No. 3, 1988, pp. 431-448, doi: 10.1353 / earl.1998.0048 .
Christians and their Manuscripts in the Greek East during the Fourth Century. In: Guglielmo Cavallo , Giuseppe De Gregorio, Marilena Maniaci (ed.): Scritture, Libri e testi nelle aree provinciali di Bisanzio (= Biblioteca del "Centro per il collegamento degli studi medievali e umanistici nell'Università di Perugia." 5 ISSN 2421-1362 ). Volume 1. Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, Spoleto 1991, pp. 127-148.
Byzantine Hagiographers as Antiquarians, 7th to 10th Century. In: Stephanos Efthymiadis, Claudia Rapp, Dimitris Tsougarakis (eds.): Bosphorus. Essays in Honor of Cyril Mango (= Byzantine Researches. 21). Hakkert, Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 90-256-0619-9 , pp. 31-44.
Figures of Female Sanctity: Byzantine Edifying Manuscripts and their Audience. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers . Vol. 50, 1996, pp. 313-344, JSTOR 1291749 .
Imperial Ideology in the Making: Eusebius of Caesarea on Constantine as 'Bishop'. In: Journal of Theological Studies. ISSN 0022-5185 , Vol. 49, No. 2, 1998, pp. 685-695, doi: 10.1093 / jts / 49.2.685 .
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity. The Nature of Christian Leadership in a Time of Transition (= The Transformation of the Classical Heritage. 37). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2005, ISBN 0-520-24296-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Claudia Rapp: Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity. The Nature of Christian Leadership in a Time of Transition (= The Transformation of the Classical Heritage. 37). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2005, ISBN 0-520-24296-3 , p. Xi.
^ Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
↑ orf.at - "Austro Nobel Prize" to Byzantinist Rapp . Article dated June 8, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Rapp, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Claudia Rapp: Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity. The Nature of Christian Leadership in a Time of Transition (= The Transformation of the Classical Heritage. 37). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2005, ISBN 0-520-24296-3 , p. Xi.

[2] Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .

[3] orf.at - "Austro Nobel Prize" to Byzantinist Rapp . Article dated June 8, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015.