Ernst Gamillscheg (Byzantinist)

Ernst Gamillscheg, Saint Petersburg (2014)

Ernst Gamillscheg (born August 6, 1950 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Byzantinist , palaeographer and librarian .

Gamillscheg studied Byzantine Studies and History of the Middle Ages. After receiving his doctorate in 1974, he was assistant at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna from 1975 to 1984 and from 1985 to 1992 head of the specialist library for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University Library of Vienna . In 1990 he completed his habilitation in Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna. From 1993 to 2007 he was director of the manuscript, autograph and estate collection of the Austrian National Library . Gamillscheg is active in research and teaching in the field of book history and especially Greek palaeography and has organized exhibitions at the Austrian National Library.

Publications

• with Dieter Harlfinger , Herbert Hunger and Paolo Eleuteri: Repertory of the Greek copyists 800–1600 . 3 volumes, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1981–1997
• with Otto Mazal and Brigitte Mersich: Matthias Corvinus and the formation of the Renaissance . Exhibition catalog of the Austrian National Library, Vienna 1994
• Manuscripta Graeca. Studies on the history of the Greek book in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Purkersdorf, Hollinek, 2010 (Codices Manuscripti Supplementum 3)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Gamillscheg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gamillscheg, Ernst (Byzantinist) .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .