Otto Kresten
Otto Kresten (born January 27, 1943 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Byzantinist and diplomat .
Life
At the University of Vienna he studied Byzantine Studies with Herbert Hunger , history with Heinrich Fichtenau , Heinrich Appelt and Alphons Lhotsky , classical philology with Albin Lesky and Rudolf Hanslik and art history with Otto Demus . He is a graduate of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , where he presented a study of the litterae caelestes as a distinctive font in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, and received his doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on Andreas Darmarios , a Greek copyist of the 16th century.
In 1981 he became Associate Professor for Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Vienna. From 1982 to 1999 he was director of the Historical Institute at the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome . From 1985 to 1987 he was rotating president of the Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell'Arte in Roma .
In 2000 he was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Kresten is a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples. He is a member of the Comité International de Paléographie grecque and the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique , and is also the Socio straniero of the Società Dalmata di Storia Patria in Roma and Socio corrispondente of the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici in Palermo.
He is a member of the “Commission for Writing and Books of the Middle Ages”, since 1990 as chairman, the “Commission for Byzantine Studies”, since 1995 as chairman, the “ Commission for the publication of the corpus of the Latin church fathers ” and the “Commission for the tabula Imperii Byzantini ”of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the "Commission for the publication of a corpus of Greek documents from the Middle Ages and modern times" and the "Commission for the publication of a 2nd series of the Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum" of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
With hunger he worked on the cataloging of the Greek manuscripts of the Austrian National Library, in the edition of the ecumenical patriarchal register from the 14th century he is responsible for the diplomatic commentary. Numerous essays deal with individual questions of document criticism or codicology.
Publications (selection)
- The relations between the patriarchates of Constantinople and Antiocheia under Callistus I and Philotheos Kokkinos in the mirror of the Patriarchate Register of Constantinople (= Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Humanities and social sciences class. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. 2000, No. 6). Steiner et al., Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-515-07748-0 .
- “State receptions” in the Imperial Palace of Constantinople around the middle of the 10th century. Observations on Chapter II 15 of the so-called "ceremonial book" (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports. 670). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2000 ISBN 3-7001-2863-0 .
- as editor with Friederike Zaisberger : Austria and the Vatican. Almost a thousand years of history from documents in the archives, library and museums of the Vatican. Catalog. Rome, Biblioteca Vaticana, Salone Sistino, November 9, 1986 - April 26, 1987. Becvar, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-900538-05-0 .
literature
- Mihailo Popović, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (ed.): Young Romans - New Greeks. A Byzantine blend from Vienna. Contributions from graduates of the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna, dedicated in gratitude to their teachers Wolfram Hörandner, Johannes Koder, Otto Kresten and Werner Seibt as a festive gift for their 65th birthday. Phoibos, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901232-95-4 .
Web links
- Biobibliography at the Accademia Pontaniana with picture, as of April 30, 2003
- Kresten, Otto . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
- ↑ member entry by Otto Kresten at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 10.16.17
Ordinariate for Byzantine Studies at the Institute for Byzantine Studies and Neo-Greek Studies , today Professorship for Byzantine Studies : Herbert Hunger (1962–1985) | Johannes Koder (1985-2010) | Claudia Rapp (since 2011)
Associate professorships for Byzantine Studies , today Professorship for Byzantine Studies - auxiliary sciences for the areas of Byzantine Studies and Neo-Greek Studies : Otto Mazal (1968–1997) | Wolfram Hörandner (1987–2007) | Otto Kresten (1981-2008) | Werner Seibt (1997-2007) | Ewald Kislinger (since 2000) | Andreas E. Müller (since 2009)
Extraordinary professorship and head of the Neo- Graecist department: Polychronis Enepekides (1974–1982) | Ordinariate for Neo-Greek Studies , today Professor of Neo-Greek Studies : Gunnar Hering (1982–1994) | Maria A. Stassinopoulou (since 2002)
Professorship for Byzantine Art History at the Institute for Art History: Helmut Buschhausen (1976–2002) | Lioba Theis (since 2005)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kresten, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Byzantinist and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |