Georgios Makris

Georgios Makris ( Greek Γεώργιος Μακρής ; * 1950 in Kifissia near Athens ) is a Greek Byzantinist and Neo-Graecist and professor of modern Greek and Byzantine philology at the University of Münster .

After studying Classical Philology at the University of Athens in 1968 , Makris continued his training with a doctoral degree in Byzantine , Slavic and Eastern European history as a scholarship holder of the Republic of Greece with Peter Schreiner at the University of Cologne . There he received his doctorate in 1985 with a study on Byzantine shipping and in 1992 he received his habilitation with an annotated edition of the life of Saint Gregory Decapolites written by Ignatios Diakonos .

After teaching at the Department of Eastern European History and the History Department of the University of Frankfurt am Main as well as at the University of Cologne, Makris was initially professor at the University of Bochum from 1993 to 2002 before moving to the Bochum Department of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies in 2003 as part of the dissolution of the Bochum chair for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies University of Münster was relocated.

His research focuses on the social and economic history of the late Byzantine period, the Byzantinoslavica, the Constantinopolitana, the history of the exact sciences, the hagiographica, the onomastics , text forgery and criticism as well as the vernacular literature of the late and post-Byzantine period; He has dedicated specific works to the Chronicle of Morea and Dionysius Areopagita . In the area of ​​neo-Greek studies he is interested in the surrealism of the painter Nikos Engonopoulos .

Fonts (selection)

• Studies of late Byzantine shipping. Saggio introduttivo di Sandra Origone e Peter Schreiner . Genova: Istituto di Medievistica 1988, also dissertation, Cologne 1985 (Collana storica di fonti e studi, 52).
• Georgios Makris:  Margunios, Maximos. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 804-805.
• Ignatios Diakonos and the Vita of St. Gregorios Dekapolites . Edition and commentary by Georgios Makris. With a translation of Michael Chronz's biography. Stuttgart, Leipzig, Teubner 1997, also: Habilitation thesis Cologne ( Byzantine Archive , Volume 17), ISBN 3-8154-7740-9
• Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris (Ed.): Polypleuros nus. Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner on his 60th birthday. Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-77742-6 (Byzantine Archive, Volume 19).
• Ships , in: Angeliki E. Laiou (Ed.): The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century . Dumbarton Oaks, 2002, ISBN 0-88402-288-9 , pp. 91-100

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Münster (with list of publications)
• Makris, Georgios .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .