Gunnar Herring

Gunnar Hering (born April 2, 1934 in Dresden , † December 22, 1994 in Vienna ) was a German and Austrian historian and Neo-Graecist .

Life

After graduating from the Dresden Kreuzgymnasium in 1952, Gunnar Hering first studied German language and literature and history at the East Berlin Humboldt University and moved to the West Berlin Free University and the German University of Politics (today's Otto Suhr Institute ) and to the Subjects: Eastern European History, Slavic Studies and Political Science . Study stays in Thessaloniki , Zagreb and Vienna as well as at the Patriarchal College on the island of Chalki near Istanbul and at the Institute for European History in Mainz also served to study these subjects . Hering received his doctorate in philosophy in 1966 in Vienna.

From 1965 Hering was an assistant at the University of Freiburg . In 1971 he qualified as a professor for modern and Eastern European history. From 1973 to 1983, interrupted by a visiting professorship at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1977, he was professor of Eastern European history at the University of Göttingen . In 1982 he accepted a call as the first professor of Neo-Greek Studies at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna , where he taught until his early death. He was buried at the Hernalser Friedhof in Vienna.

Scientific activity

The dominant topic of his research was the recent history of the Greeks and the South Slavic nations, especially with regard to the issues of nation-building and the political order of the Balkan peoples , their cultural and historical character and the foreign policy constellations such as the Ottoman , Russian and German great power interests that were precarious for Southeast Europe . His two-volume history of the political parties of Greece 1821-1936 , in which he illuminated the institutions of political decision-making in Greece over the long distance from the outbreak of the Greek struggle for freedom to the coup d'état of General Metaxas , is a standard work of modern Greek history.

From 1990 to 1992 Hering was chairman of the professors' curia of the humanities faculty at the University of Vienna, member of the Balkan Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and president of the Austrian Society for Modern Greek Studies and the Austrian Society for Research in the 18th Century.

As a scientific mouthpiece, he founded the publication series Studies on the History of Southeast Europe .

Fonts

• Ecumenical Patriarchy and European Politics. 1620–1638 (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz. 45, ISSN  0537-7919 ). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968 (in modern Greek language and alphabet: . Οικουμένικο πατριαρχείο και ευρωπαϊκή πολιτική 1620 to 1638 Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, Αθήνα, 1992, ISBN 960-250-056-5 ).
• as editor: Dimensions of Greek Literature and History. Festschrift for Pavlos Tzermias on his 65th birthday (= studies on the history of Southeast Europe . 10). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-45811-8 .
• The political parties in Greece 1821–1936 (= Southeast European Works. 90). 2 volumes. Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55871-4 (In modern Greek language and alphabet: . Τα πολιτικά κόμματα στην Ελλάδα 1821-1936 Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, Αθήνα 2004, ISBN 960-250-287-8 ).
• Nostos. Collected writings on the history of Southeast Europe. Edited by Maria A. Stassinopoulou . Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1995, ISBN 3-631-47568-3 (reprint of twelve essays by Gunnar Hering from 1979 to 1993).

literature

• Maria A. Stassinopoulou , Ioannis Zelepos (Ed.): Greek Culture in Southeast Europe in Modern Times. Contributions to the symposium in memoriam Gunnar Hering (Vienna, December 16-18, 2004) (= Byzantina et Neograeca Vindobonensia. 26). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7001-3829-7 ( table of contents online ).

Web links

• Reinhard Lauer : In memoriam Gunnar Hering (April 2, 1934– December 22, 1994)
• Johannes Koder : Gunnar Hering (April 2, 1934– December 22, 1994)
• Gunnar Hering Lectures

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Section 25 (1) of the Citizenship Act 1965, both in the version valid until August 31, 1983 and in the version valid from September 1, 1983 ; Hering was appointed full professor at the University of Vienna in 1983