Gyula Moravcsik
Gyula Moravcsik (born January 29, 1892 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † December 10, 1972 ibid) was a Hungarian Byzantinist .
Life
The son of a lawyer studied classical philology at the University of Budapest . In 1914 he obtained his doctorate there. phil. When the First World War broke out , he became a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army and was taken prisoner by Russia in 1915, where he remained in Siberia until 1920. During his captivity, he learned the Russian as well as the modern Greek and Turkish languages.
After his return from Siberia, he became professor at the Baron- József-Eötvös -Kollégium in Budapest in 1923 and then, after his habilitation in 1924, first in 1932 at the University of Budapest , and in 1936, full professor of Greek philology.
The focus of his scientific work was on the evaluation of Byzantine written sources for Hungarian history and that of the Turkic peoples. His most important work, Byzantinoturcica, which appeared in 1942/43 and was reissued in an expanded form in 1958, served this purpose. In this work, Moravcsik has made a critical inventory of all known sources on Hungarian-Byzantine relations. In further research he examined the word, name and legend formations for their origin and their references to Byzantium.
For his scientific achievements Gyula Moravcsik was accepted on June 1, 1967 in the order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts as a foreign member.
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE ORDER POUR LE MERITE FOR SCIENCE AND ARTS, The Members of the Order, Volume III (1953–1992), page 78 with picture on page 79, Lambert Schneider-Verlag, Gerlingen, 1994
Web links
- Moravcsik, Gyula . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moravcsik, Gyula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1972 |
| Place of death | Budapest |