Peter Schreiner (Byzantinist)

Peter Schreiner (born May 4, 1940 in Munich ) is a German Byzantinist .

After attending the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich up to the Abitur in 1961, Schreiner studied Byzantine Studies , Middle Latin Philology , Ancient History and Classical Philology at the University of Munich . On February 23, 1967 he received his doctorate with Hans-Georg Beck with a thesis on the Byzantine small chronicles. In 1969 he became an employee of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana . In 1974, Schreiner became a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin . From 1979 to 2005 he was full professor for Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne .

From 1991 to 2004 Peter Schreiner was the editor of the Byzantine magazine . From 2001 to 2011 he was President of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines . Since 1991 he has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 1993 of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen as well as an honorary doctorate from the universities of Tarnovo (1992), Belgrade (2003) and Sofia (2004). From 2005 to 2009 he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the German Study Center in Venice .

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on the Brachea chronika (= Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia , Volume 6). Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Institute for Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Neo- Greek Studies, Philology, Munich 1967, DNB 458884979 (Dissertation University of Munich 1967).
• Chronica Byzantina breviora = The Byzantine Small Chronicles (= Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae , Volume 12), 3 volumes, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975–1979.
• Byzantium 565–1453 (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history , volume 22). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986; 2., revised. Edition 1994; 3., completely redesigned. Edition 2008, 4th, updated edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-57750-1 .
• Texts on late Byzantine financial and economic history in manuscripts from the Biblioteca Vaticana (= Studi e testi , Volume 344). Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1991, ISBN 88-210-0637-9 .
• City and law - village and custom. An attempt at a historical folklore of Byzantium: methods, sources, objects, examples . In: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, philological-historical class . No. 9, year 2001. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, DNB  963445073 .
• Constantinople. History and archeology (= CH Beck Wissen , Volume 2364). CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-50864-6 (Italian edition Edition Salerno, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-8402-663-7 ).
• Byzantine culture. A collection of essays , collected little writings:
  • Volume 1: The Power , ed. by Silvia Ronchey , Elena Velkovska, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-8498-210-3 ( table of contents );
  • Volume 2: The Knowledge , ed. by Niels Gaul, Silvia Ronchey, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-8498-211-7 ( table of contents );
  • Volume 3: The material culture , ed. by Christina Katsougiannopoulou and Silvia Ronchey, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2011, ISBN 978-88-8498-368-8 ( table of contents );
  • Volume 4: The radiation , ed. by Silvia Ronchey and Raimondo Tocci, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2013 ISBN 978-88-6372-503-2 ( Prefazione by Silvia Ronchey ; table of contents ).

literature

• Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris (Ed.): Polypleuros nus. Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner on his 60th birthday. Saur, Munich, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-77742-6 ( Byzantine Archive , Volume 19) (pp. 415-429: List of publications).

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schreiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schreiner, Peter (Byzantinist) .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Remarks

1. ↑ Andreas Rhoby, review of volumes 3 and 4 in Südost-Forschungen 73, 2014, pp. 529-538.