Polychronis Enepekides

Polychrónis Kyprianoú Enepekídes , also in the transcription Enepekídis , Greek Πολυχρόνης Κυπριανού Ενεπεκίδης (* June 12, 1917 in Amisos ; † October 12, 2014 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Byzantine and neo- Greek origin.

Life

After the Second World War, Enepekides worked at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1946 and his habilitation in 1950 . As a private lecturer (since 1960 as adjunct professor) he gave courses on Byzantine and Neo-Greek studies. In 1974 he was appointed head of the Neo-Graecist department at the Vienna Institute for Byzantine Studies and an associate professor. In 1982 he retired. The continuation of the subject of Neo-Greek Studies was secured by the university management appointing Gunnar Hering as a full professor of the subject.

The focus of his research was the history of the Greeks since the Middle Ages (especially since the 19th century). He published numerous documents from Greek history for the first time.

In 1980, Enepekides was awarded the Golden Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar , Volume 1 (2005), pp. 719–720.
• Franz Römer , Sonja Martina Schreiner: Dis -continities. Classical Philology in National Socialism , in: Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Niess, Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism: The example of the University of Vienna . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2010, 317–342, there pp. 331–332, excerpts online

Web links

• Literature by and about Polychronis Enepekides in the catalog of the German National Library
• Enepekides, Polychronis .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Απεβίωσε ο Πολυχρόνης Ενεπεκίδης. Obituary to pontos-news.gr of November 5, 2014 (Greek, accessed November 10, 2014).
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)