Hans-Georg Beck

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Hans-Georg Beck (born February 18, 1910 in Schneizlreuth ; † May 25, 1999 in Munich ) was a German Byzantinist .

Live and act

Hans-Georg Beck graduated from high school in 1929 and became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Scheyern under the religious name Hildebrand Beck in the same year . From 1930 to 1937 he studied philosophy, Catholic theology and Byzantine studies at the University of Munich and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome . In 1936 he received his doctorate with the dissertation supervised by Martin Grabmann “Providence and predestination in the theological literature of the Byzantines”. In 1939 Beck became a monastery librarian in Scheyern , where he and his brother Johannes Maria Hoeck established the “Byzantine Institute of Scheyern Abbey”. On February 18, 1944, he resigned from the order and then worked partially in the publishing industry, especially for the magazine Hochland . From 1947 he was a student assistant or assistant at the "Middle and Modern Greek Seminar" at the University of Munich with Franz Dölger . Here he was also in 1949 with the work of Theodoros Metochites . The crisis of the Byzantine view of the world in the 14th century qualified as a professor, since April 11, 1950 he was a private lecturer in Byzantine studies.

As the successor to Franz Dölger at the chair for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Munich, Beck placed institutional history and Byzantine literature more in the foreground from 1960 until his retirement in 1975 and, through translations and collections of sources, a picture of life in the Drawn Byzantine Empire. He turned down appointments at the Free University of Berlin (1965) and Harvard University (1972).

Beck had been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1962, and numerous of his studies were published in the reports of the meetings. From 1965 to 1967 he was Vice President of the DFG and a member of the Science Council . As a founding member and chairman of the sponsoring association, he set up the German Study Center in Venice from 1970 to 1983 . He was holder of the Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1981) and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1988). He became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1966, a member of the Academy of Athens in 1975 , a foreign member of the British Academy in 1977 , and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1988 . From 1963 to 1974 he was chairman of the Working Group of German Byzantinists.

From 1961 he was co-editor, from 1964 to 1977 editor-in-chief of the Byzantine Journal and the Byzantine Archives. The Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia was founded by him in 1965, from 1978 to 1996 he edited it together with Armin Hohlweg . With Athanasios Kambylis and Rudolf Keydell he was editor of the Berlin series of the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae . Committed to interdisciplinarity was the co- editing of Südost-Forschungen , the journal of the Südost-Institut Munich (1966 to 1997) and, in 1967, the foundation of the writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe , together with Alois Schmaus and Georg Stadtmüller .

Fonts (selection)

Texts and literature from Byzantium

  • Vademecum of the Byzantine Aristocrat. The so-called Strategicon of the Kekänkeos. (= Byzantine historians 5, ZDB -ID 532553-5 ). Styria, Graz et al. 1956.
  • History of Byzantine Folk Literature (= Handbook of Classical Studies . Department 12: Byzantine Handbook . Part 2, Volume 3). Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-01420-8 .
  • Byzantine reader. Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08584-9 .
  • The father of German Byzantine studies. The life of Hieronymus Wolf told by himself (= Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia 29, ISSN  0076-9347 ). German by Hans-Georg Beck. Institute for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Munich, Munich 1984.
  • Byzantine erotic icon. Orthodoxy, literature, society (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Meeting reports 1984, 5). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7696-1532-8 (also: Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-31309-4 ).
  • Empress Theodora and Procopius. The historian and his victim (= Piper. Vol. 5221 portrait ). Piper, Munich et al. 1986, ISBN 3-492-05221-5 .

theology

  • Providence and predestination in the theological literature of the Byzantines (= Orientalia Christiana Analecta 114, ISSN  1590-7449 ). Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Orientum, Rome 1937 (reprint. Ibid 1963).
  • Church and theological literature in the Byzantine Empire (= Handbook of Classical Studies. Department 12: Byzantine Handbook. Part 2, Volume 1). Beck, Munich 1959.
  • From the questionability of the icon (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports 1975, 7). Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften et al., Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7696-1474-7 .
  • Actus fidei. Ways to the Autodafé (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports 1987, 3). Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften et al., Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7696-1545-X .
  • On dealing with heretics. The faith of the common people and the power of the theologians. Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37618-5 .

State and society

  • Theodoros Metochites. The crisis of the Byzantine worldview in the 14th century. Beck, Munich 1952.
  • Senate and people of Constantinople. Problems of the Byzantine constitutional history (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Session reports 1966, 6, ISSN  0342-5991 ). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1966.
  • Res Publica Romana. On the state thinking of the Byzantines (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Meeting reports 1970, 2). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and others, Munich and others 1970.
  • Ideas and Realities in Byzantium. Collected articles (= Variorum Reprint. CS 13). Variorum Reprints, London 1972, ISBN 0-902089-41-2 .
  • Theory and practice in the structure of the Byzantine central administration (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Session reports 1974, 8). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Others, Munich and others 1974, ISBN 3-7696-1462-3 .

Beck published under the pseudonym Peter Hamann :

  • Spiritual Biedermeier in the old Bavarian region. Pustet, Regensburg 1954.
  • String play of existence. Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1958.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Member History: Hans-Georg Beck . American Philosophical Society, accessed May 3, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Hans-Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamann, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneizlreuth
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1999
Place of death Munich