Günter Prinzing

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Günter Prinzing (born September 24, 1943 in Hamburg ) is a German Byzantinist.

Günter Prinzing studied From 1963 to 1969 Byzantine Studies , Slavic Studies and the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the universities of Hamburg , Vienna , Lyon and Munich , where he studied Byzantine Studies with Hans-Georg Beck in the summer of 1971 with an investigation into Byzantine-South Slavic relations PhD in the early 13th century. From 1971 to 1975 he was a research assistant to Hans Wilhelm Haussig at the Historical Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum , from 1976 to 1982 with Jadran Ferluga at the Byzantine Seminar of the University of Münster , where he studied the corpus of files of the Ohrid Archbishop Demetrios Chomatos in 1980 Habilitation in Byzantine Studies. In February 1982 he was made a temporary professor in Münster, and in September 1986 he was appointed professor of Byzantine Studies at the Department of History at the University of Mainz . In 1993 he turned down a call to the University of Hamburg. In 2008 he retired. Johannes Pahlitzsch has been his successor since April 2009 .

His focal points in Byzantine history are particularly the relations between Byzantium and Southeast Europe and East Central Europe. Then there is the history of the Church and the history of literature, especially the vernacular literature.

From 1999 to 2009 he was head of the Mainz branch of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Munich) , and from 2001 to February 2011 he was chairman of the German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. He is editor of the series: Mainz Publications on Byzantine Studies , which has been published by Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden since 1994. Since 1998 he has been co-editor of Südost-Forschungen . From January to March 2004 he was a visiting fellow at Exeter College , Oxford.

Fonts (selection)

  • The importance of Bulgaria and Serbia in the years 1204–1219 in connection with the formation and development of the Byzantine states after the capture of Constantinople as a result of the 4th Crusade , Munich 1972 (= Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia. Volume 12)
  • The image of Justinian in the Byzantine tradition from the 7th to 15th centuries. In: Fontes Minores 7, ed. by D. Simon. Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 1-99.
  • with the assistance of I. Bradler u. a .: Index of place names for Byzantine studies on the history of the city . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994.
  • with Andrea B. Schmidt (Ed.): The Lemberger Evangeliar. A rediscovered Armenian illuminated manuscript from the 12th century . Reichert, Wiesbaden 1997 (= Languages ​​and Cultures of the Christian Orient. Volume 2)
  • How the Byzantines deal with foreigners . In: Chr. Lüth, RW Keck and E. Wirsing (eds.), Dealing with the foreign in the premodern. Studies on acculturation from an educational historical perspective . Cologne u. a. 1997, pp. 117-143. (= Contributions to historical educational research. Volume 17)
  • The controversial independence of the Macedonian Orthodox Church in a historical perspective. In: From the South East European Research , Volume 10, ed. by W. Althammer, Munich 1999, pp. 31-43.
  • Trapezuntia in Krakow. About the small chronicle and other texts in Cod. Berolin. graec. qu. 5 . In: Polypleuros Nous. Festschrift for Peter Schreiner , ed. v. Cordula Scholz and Georgios Makris. Munich 2000, pp. 290-310.
  • On some special "slave" documents in the history of the Byzantine Ioannes Skylitzes . In: Fifty Years of Research on Ancient Slavery at the Mainz Academy, 1950–2000. Miscellanea for the anniversary . Edited by H. Bellen and H. Heinen. Stuttgart 2001, pp. 353-362.
  • Edited with Maciej Salamon with the participation of Paul Stephenson: Byzantium and East Central Europe . Krakow 2001 (= Byzantina et Slavica Cracovensia, III)
  • Demetrii Chomati Ponemata diaphora , recensuit Günter Prinzing ( Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 38). De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2002.
  • The papacy and the orthodox south-east of Europe 1180–1216 . In: The papacy in the world of the 12th century . Edited by Ernst-Dieter Hehl , IH Ringel and H. Seibert. Stuttgart 2002, pp. 137-184.
  • On the Byzantine dispute of rank in prose and poetry. In: Römische Historische Mitteilungen , Volume 45, 2003, pp. 241–286.
  • A quasi patriarch in the State of Epiros: The autocephalous archbishop of "Boulgaria" (Ohrid) Demetrios Chomatos . In: Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog Instituta 41 (2004) (= Festschrift Sima Ćirković), pp. 165–182.
  • For the exchange of diplomatic gifts between Byzantium and its neighbors in East-Central and Southeastern Europe. In: JG Deckers, M. Restle, A. Shalem (eds.): Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Aräologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte , Volume 4, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 141–173.
  • Writing next to painting: On the memorial and donor inscriptions in the church Hagia Triada (1743–1745) in Proasteio (Exo Mani / Peloponnese). In: What happened and what was written. Studies in honor of Günther S. Henrich and Klaus-Peter Matschke ed. v. S. Kolditz and RC Müller. Leipzig 2005, pp. 223-251.
  • Again to the historical interpretation of the Bamberg Gunthertuch on Johannes Tzimiskes . In: Byzantium, New Peoples, New Powers: The Byzantino-Slav Contact Zone, from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century , ed. By M. Kaimakamova, M. Salamom and M. Smorag Rozycka (= Byzantina et Slavica Cracovensia, 5). Krakau 2007, pp. 123–152.
  • Elissos (Lezha) or Kroai (Kruja)? On Anna Komnenes problematic description of the central Albanian coastal region between Elissos and Dyrrachion (Durrës) around 1107. In: K. Belke, E. Kislinger, A. Külzer, MAStassinopoulou (eds.): Byzantina Mediterranea. Festschrift for Johannes Koder on his 65th birthday . Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2007, pp. 503-515.
  • Pliska in the View of Protobulgarian Inscriptions and Byzantine Written Sources. In: Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium , ed. v. J. Henning. Volume 2: Byzantium, Pliska and the Balkans (= Millennium Studies / Millennium Studies. Volume 5, 2), Berlin a. New York 2007, pp. 241-252.
  • The Fourth Crusade in the later historiography and chronicling of the Byzantines . In: The Fourth Crusade Revisited. Atti della Conferenza Internazionale nell'ottavo centenario della IV Crociata, 1204–2004. Andros (Grecia), 27-30 maggio 2004 , a cura di P. Piatti. Città del Vaticano 2008, pp. 275-307.
  • On Jörg von Nürnberg, the gun founder of Mehmets II., And his work “Geschichte von der Turckey”. In: Sultan Mehmet II, Conqueror of Constantinople - Patron of the Arts. Edited by Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger and U. Rehm. Cologne u. a. 2009, pp. 59-75.
  • Medieval Mainz and Byzantium. Historical-political, ecclesiastical and cultural-historical aspects. In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 91 (2009), pp. 45–77.
  • Observations on the Legal Status of Children and the Stages of Childhood in Byzantium . In: A. Papaconstantinou, A.-M. Talbot (Ed.): Becoming Byzantine. Children and Childhood in Byzantium . Washington, DC, 2009, pp. 15-34.
  • Cross-section “1200” and longitudinal section “Church history” and (together with B. Romhányi): Chap. 3: Imperial rule and inner-regional consolidation in the High Middle Ages: Byzantium and the world of states in Southeast Europe [approx. 900-1282]. In: K. Clewing, OJ Schmitt (Ed.): History of Southeast Europe from the early Middle Ages to the present. Regensburg 2011, 58-60, 61-65; 66-138.
  • Epiros 1204-1261. Historical Outline - Sources - Prosopography. In: J. Herrin, G. Saint-Guillain (eds): Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204. Farnham / Surrey u. Burlington / VT 2011, 81–89.
  • The autocephalous Byzantine church province Bulgaria / Ohrid. How independent were their archbishops? In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia, 22-27 August 2011 , vol. I: Plenary papers. Sofia 2011, 389-413.

literature

  • Lars M. Hoffmann, Anuscha Monchizadeh (Ed.): Between Polis, Province and Periphery. Contributions to Byzantine history and culture . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2005, ISBN 3-447-05170-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Prinzing, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg