List of famous Greek palaeographers

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The list of well-known Greek palaeographers includes Graecists and paleographers who deal or have dealt mainly with Greek palaeography including codicology . Insofar as papyrology deals with the diverse manuscripts found on ancient and late antique papyri, it has an overlap with palaeography, the subject of which is the manuscripts that are in codices from late antiquity, the Byzantine period and the Renaissance to find modern times. The same applies to diplomacy .

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Gerolamo Amati (1764-1834)

Italian

Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana

Latin Studies
Epigraphy
Paleography
Handwriting

Cataloging Greek manuscripts

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Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Beneschewitsch (1874–1938)

Russian

St. Petersburg University
Christian Brockmann (* 1960)

German

University of Hamburg
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum , Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

C.

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Paul Canart (1927-2017)

Frenchman

Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana

palaeography

Mario Capasso (* 1951)

Italian

Università degli Studi di Foggia
University of Naples Federico II
Università del Salento

Papyrology
Guglielmo Cavallo (* 1938)

Italian

University of Rome
Olga Cicanci (1940-2013)

Romanian

University of Bucharest

History , Neo-Greek Studies Greek manuscripts from the Library of the Romanian Academy

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Alphonse Dain (1896–1964)

Frenchman

École pratique des hautes études
Institut catholique de Paris

Codicology, catalog of the Greek manuscripts of the Musée du Louvre , manuscripts of Byzantine military writers and legal scholars
Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison (1750–1805)

Frenchman

University of Paris ,
Collège de France

Classical Philology
Neo-Greek Studies

Discoverer of numerous manuscripts, in particular Venetus A of the Iliad , edition philology
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Eduardo Luigi De Stefani (1869–1921)

Italian

Sapienza University , Rome

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Enrica Follieri (1926–1999)

Italian

La Sapienza University of Rome

Byzantine Philology

Hymnology, hagiography
Boris Fonkič (* 1938) Борис Львович Фонкич

Russian

Russian Academy of Sciences

Johannes Franz (1804-1851)

German

University of Berlin
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Ernst Gamillscheg (* 1950)

Austrian

Institute for Byzantium Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

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Victor Gardthausen (1843–1925)

German

Leipzig
University Leipzig University Library

Charles Graux (1852-1882)

Frenchman

École pratique des hautes études
Giuseppe De Gregorio (* 1962)

Italian

University of Salerno

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Dieter Harlfinger (* 1940)

German

Free University of Berlin
University of Hamburg

Hermann Harrauer (* 1941)

Austrian

University of Vienna
Austrian National Library

Papyrology
Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864)

German

University of Paris
École polytechnique
École des langues orientales

Philippe Hoffmann (* 1953)

Frenchman

École normal supérieure

Herbert Hunger (1914-2000)

Austrian

University of Vienna

Byzantine Philology,
Greek Paleography,
Greek Papyrology

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Irmgard Hutter (*)

Austrian

Vienna

Byzantine art history

(with Otto Demus ): Corpus of the Byzantine miniature manuscripts

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Frederic G. Kenyon (1863-1952)

Briton

British Museum

Magdalen College , Oxford

Greek Philology,
Greek Paleography,
Greek Papyrology

Tradition of the New Testament
Aristotle , The State of Athens

Sofia Kotzabassi (* 1962) Σοφία Κοτζάμπαση

Greek

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Byzantine Philology
Modern Greek Philology
Classical Philology

Rhetoric , epistolography , historiography, prosopography , paleography
Otto Kresten (* 1943)

Austrian

University of Vienna

L.

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Henri Lebègue (1859-1938)

Frenchman

École pratique des hautes études
Sorbonne

Edgar Lobel (1888–1982)

Briton

Queen's College , Oxford
Bodleian Library

Classical Philology Tradition of Hesiod , Pindar , Aeschylus , Aristotle and Callimachus
Santo Lucà (* 1942)

Italian

University of Rome Tor Vergata

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Angelo Mai (1782-1854)

Italian

Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
Biblioteca Ambrosiana

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Otto Mazal (1932-2008)

Austrian

University of Vienna
Austrian National Library

Emmanuel Miller (1812-1886)

Frenchman

École des langues orientales , Paris

Greek Byzantine Studies

Manuscripts, dating of New Testament manuscripts, Philosophumena
Brigitte Mondrain (*)

French

École pratique des hautes études , Paris

Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741)

Frenchman

Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey , Paris

Church fathers
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Karl Müller (1813-1894)

German

Privately taught
grammar school in Clausthal

Andreas E. Müller (* 1966)

German

University of Vienna

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Henri Omont (1857-1940)

Frenchman

Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris Catalog général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France

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Cesare Pasini (born 1950)

Italian

Vatican Apostolic Library
Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Lidia Perria (1950-2003)

Italian

University of Rome
University of Messina

Linos Politis (1906–1982) Λίνος Πολίτης

Greek

University of Thessaloniki

Modern Greek literary history
manuscript studies

Giancarlo Prato (* 1950)

Italian

University of Pavia
Karl Preisendanz (1883–1968)

German

Heidelberg University Heidelberg
University Library
Badische Landesbibliothek , Karlsruhe

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Michael D. Reeve (born 1943)

Briton

Cambridge University
Pembroke College
Exeter College

Colin Henderson Roberts (1909-1990)

Briton

St John's College , Oxford

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Wilhelm Schubart (1873–1960)

German

University of Leipzig
University of Berlin
Royal Museums in Berlin

Richard Seider (1913–1988)

German

Heidelberg University , Institute for Papyrology
Martin Sicherheitsl (1914–2009)

German

University of Munster
Ernst Siegmann (1915–1981)

German

University of Würzburg

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Konstantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874)

German

University of Leipzig
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Agamemnon Tselikas (*) Αγαμέμνων Τσελίκας

Greek

Historical and paleographic archive of the Foundation for Education of the National Bank of Greece
Alexander Turyn (1900-1981)

Pole

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Warsaw

Handwritten tradition from Pindar , Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides

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Wilhelm Wattenbach (1819-1897)

German

University of Berlin
University of Heidelberg
University of Breslau

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Nigel Guy Wilson (* 1935)

Briton

Lincoln College , Oxford

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