Herbert Hunger

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Herbert Hunger

Herbert Hunger (born December 9, 1914 in Vienna ; † July 9, 2000 there ) was an Austrian Byzantinist .

Life

Hunger was director of the papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library from 1956 to 1962 , university professor in Vienna from 1962 to 1985 and president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1973 to 1982 . He founded the Vienna School of Byzantine Studies and was the first to hold the chair for Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna .

The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , he belonged since 1978 as a corresponding member. On October 10, 1980, Hunger was elected a corresponding member of the philological-historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In the same year he was accepted into the American Philosophical Society . In 1987 he became a corresponding member of the British Academy .

tomb

Hunger was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies on Greek palaeography (= Biblos-Schriften. 5, ZDB -ID 501904-7 ). Hollinek, Vienna 1954.
  • as editor: Byzantine Spiritual World. From Constantine the Great to the fall of Constantinople. Holle, Baden-Baden 1958.
  • Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology. Hollinek, Vienna 1953, (8th, expanded edition, ibid. 1988, ISBN 3-85119-230-3 ; Reinbek 1974).
  • with others: ancient and medieval books and writings. History of transmission of ancient literature (= history of text transmission of ancient and medieval literature. 1). Atlantis, Zurich 1961.
  • Empire of the new center. The Christian spirit of the Byzantine culture. Styria, Graz et al. 1965.
  • Catalog of the Greek manuscripts of the Austrian National Library. 6 volumes. 1961-1994 (recte -1995).
  • Byzantine basic research. Collected articles (= Variorum reprint CS. 21). Variorum Reprints, London 1973, ISBN 0-902089-55-2 .
  • Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology. Reinbek 1974.
  • The high-level profane literature of the Byzantines (= Handbook of Classical Studies . Dept. 12: Byzantinisches Handbuch. Tl .: 5, 1–2). 2 volumes. Beck, Munich 1978;
    • Volume 1: Philosophy, Rhetoric, Epistolography, Historiography, Geography. 1978, ISBN 3-406-01427-5 ;
    • Volume 2: Philology, profane poetry, music, mathematics and astronomy, natural sciences, medicine, war science, legal literature. 1978, ISBN 3-406-01428-3 .
  • Epidosis. Collected writings on Byzantine intellectual and cultural history. Edition Maris, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-925801-05-7 .
  • Writing and reading in Byzantium. The Byzantine book culture. Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33391-5 (In modern Greek language and alphabet: .. Ο κόσμος του βυζαντινού βιβλίου Γραφή και ανάγνωση στο Βυζάντιο . Ινστιτούτο του βιβλίου - Μ Καρδαμίτσα, Αθήνα 1995 ISBN 960-354-017- X ).
  • Prochoros Kydones' translations of S. Augustinus, De libero arbitrio I 1-90 and Ps.-Augustinus, De decem plagis Aegyptiorum (= Vienna Studies . Supplement. 14). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1719-1 .
  • Thinking along the lines of language. Johann Nestroy's ingenious as well as banal alienations through neologisms (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports. 664). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2790-1 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Herbert Hunger. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 5, 2016 .
  2. ^ Members of the SAW: Herbert Hunger, Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, accessed on July 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Member History: Herbert Hunger. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 12, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hungry, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2000
Place of death Vienna