Georg Ostrogorsky
George Ostrogorsky ( Russian Георгий Александрович Острогорский / Georgi Alexandrovich Ostrogorski ; born January 6 . Jul / 19th January 1902 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 24. October 1976 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav Byzantinist Russian origin.
Life
His family emigrated to Finland during the Russian Revolution . He studied in France and Germany, did his doctorate in Heidelberg and acquired German citizenship . He had been a lecturer in Breslau from 1928 , but was dismissed from university service in 1933. He went to Prague and then took over the management of the Seminarium Kondakovianum , which had been moved to Belgrade . He received the chair for Byzantine Studies at the University of Belgrade and was the founder and head of the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences in 1948 , which under his direction became one of the leading research centers alongside Paris, Munich and Dumbarton Oaks . His main work is the book History of the Byzantine State , which has been translated into numerous languages and has long been considered a standard work, but is now out of date in many respects. Ostrogorsky, without a doubt one of the most important Byzantinists, was accepted into the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts in 1966. In 1969 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was also a corresponding member of the Academies of Sciences in Athens, Göttingen , Vienna and London . He was friends with Percy Ernst Schramm .
Byzantine economic history was of particular interest.
Selected publications
- The rural tax community of the Byzantine Empire in the Xth century , in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte , vol. 20 (1927), pp. 1–108 [dissertation] (reprinted 1969).
- Studies on the history of the Byzantine iconoclasm . Breslau 1929 [Habilitation] (reprint 1964).
- History of the Byzantine State . Handbook of Classical Studies XII.1.2, CH Beck, Munich 1940, 3rd edition 1963, ISBN 3-406-01414-3 . - Special edition without scientific apparatus under the title Byzantine History 324 to 1453 , CH Beck, Munich 1965 (and reprints, ISBN 3-406-39759-X ).
literature
- Herbert Hunger , Georg Ostrogorsky. Obituary. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 127, 1977, ISSN 0378-8644 , pp. 538-544.
- Barisa Krekic: George Ostrogorsky (1902–1976) , in: Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil (eds.): Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, Volume 1: History (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volume 1350), Garland Publishing, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8240-6894-7 , pp. 301-311.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Ostrogorsky in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ostrogorsky, George . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Article Georg Ostrogorsky in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 21, 2016
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 184.
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 13, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ostrogorsky, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Острогорский, Георгий Александрович (Russian); Ostrogorski, Georgi Alexandrowitsch (German transcription); Ostrogorsky, George (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1976 |
| Place of death | Belgrade |