Stephen Gerö

Stephen Gerö (born September 23, 1943 in Budapest ) is an orientalist of Hungarian origin living in Germany . His main research interests are the Byzantine iconoclasm , the languages ​​and literatures of the Eastern Churches , Gnosis and the Biblical Apocrypha .

Life

Stephen Gerö, son of the architect István Gerö and the pharmacist Zsusanna Gerö, b. Bodnár, spent his first years in Hungary. Caused by the Hungarian uprising in October 1956, the family emigrated to Montreal (Canada) via Austria in December of the same year.

Scientific life path

After attending high school in Montreal , Gerö earned a bachelor's degree from McGill University there . He then studied Oriental Studies , Byzantine Studies , Theology and Religious Studies at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) at Robert W. Thomson , Thomas O. Lambdin , Robert Lee Wolff, Ernst Kitzinger , George MacRae, Helmut Koester and George H. Williams . He received his doctorate in 1972 from Harvard University with the thesis "Byzantine Iconoclasm: A Study of its Genesis and Early Development". After his work as "teaching assistant" at Harvard University (from 1968) in 1973 an assistant professor at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) followed. In 1980 he succeeded Alexander Böhlig in the professorship for languages ​​and cultures of the Christian Orient at the University of Tübingen ( full professor from 1987, retired in 2008). During this time he also held a visiting professorship in Uppsala (1985/86) and several research stays at the Dumbarton Oaks Institute for Byzantine Studies ( Washington, DC ) and the Institute for Advanced Study ( Princeton, New Jersey ).

Publications

• Byzantine iconoclasm during the reign of Leo III, with particular attention to the oriental sources (= Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 346, Subsidia 41). Lions 1973.

• Byzantine iconoclasm during the reign by Constantine V, with particular attention to the oriental sources (= Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 384, Subsidia 52). Lions 1977.

• Barṣauma of Nisibis and Persian Christianity in the fifth century (= Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 426, Subsidia 63). Lions 1981. ISBN 2-8017-0164-5

• approx. 100 essays, reviews and encyclopedia articles

• A complete bibliography can be found in:
  Bible, Byzantium and Christian Orient. Festschrift for Stephen Gerö on his 65th birthday (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 187). Edited by Dmitrij Bumazhnov, Emmanouela Grypeou, Timothy B. Sailors and Alexander Toepel. Löwen 2011, pp. XI-XVII. ISBN 978-90-429-2177-1

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2011, 23rd Edition, Vol. 1, p. 1187.

Web links

• Page at the University of Tübingen