Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna

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The Institute for Byzantine and Neo- Greek Studies at the University of Vienna is, alongside the Institute for Byzantine Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Byzantine Society, the most important research institution for Central and Modern Greek studies in Austria. The institute's specialist library is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in Austria. Organizationally, the institute is part of the historical and cultural studies faculty of the University of Vienna; Studies in Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies are supervised (together with other studies) by the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Vienna.

history

The history of academic research in the field of Byzantine Studies in Austria is relatively short. In 1949 the Austrian Byzantine Society was founded. The university institute was founded in 1962 under the name Chair for Byzantine Studies . The first holder of the chair was the Austrian Byzantinist Herbert Hunger , followed by his student Johannes Koder ; Claudia Rapp has held the professorship since 2010 . The location was initially in Hanuschgasse, in 1975 the company moved to the current location in the building of the Old University in Postgasse. In 1978 the name was changed to the Institute for Byzantine and Neo- Greek Studies in order to express the importance of the modern Greek studies carried out by the extraordinary Professor Polychronis Enepekides , head of the Neo- Graecist department since 1974, at the institute since 1960. Gunnar Hering became the first professor of neo-Greek studies in 1982 . After his death in 1994, the chair for Neo-Greek Studies remained vacant for a few years until Maria Stassinopoulou was appointed in 2002. Together with the Institute for Byzantium Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the institute publishes the Yearbook of Austrian Byzantine Studies (JÖB, 1951ff.), Alongside the Byzantine Journal (1892ff.), The most important German-language specialist publication.

Research and Teaching

The institute focuses on the historical research of the Byzantine Empire , as well as the Greek culture and diaspora since 1453 , in particular on researching the history of the Greek community in Vienna and the history of modern Greece. In the philological field, research concentrates on medieval (Byzantine) Greek, and knowledge of modern Greek is taught in a 4-semester course . Since the 1990s, materials on the history of Greek filmmaking between 1944 (end of the German occupation) and 1974 (end of the military dictatorship) have been collected.

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