Wolfram Brandes

Wolfram Brandes (born September 10, 1954 in Stotternheim ) is a German Byzantinist .

Brandes studied Medieval History and Byzantine Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1974 to 1979, after which he worked in the Early Byzantium Department (headed by Friedhelm Winkelmann ) of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin. In 1984 he was promoted to Dr. phil. with the dissertation "The Byzantine cities of Asia Minor in the 7th and 8th centuries". During the Peaceful Revolution , he was involved in the Independent Association of Historians , where he publicly attacked the head of the Central Institute, Joachim Herrmann . Since December 1990 he has been a member of the research unit "Editing and Processing Byzantine Legal Sources" at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History . In January 2001 he received the venia legendi for Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne, and in June 2002 he was rehabilitated at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he was made an adjunct professor. Brandes has been co-editor of Millennium magazine since 2004 . Yearbook on culture and history of the first millennium AD and the associated series of monographs Millennium Studies published by W. de Gruyter .

Fonts (selection)

The cities of Asia Minor in the 7th and 8th centuries (= Berlin Byzantine Works. Vol. 56). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000568-8 .
Financial management in times of crisis. Studies on the Byzantine administration in the 6th – 9th centuries Century (= research on Byzantine legal history. Vol. 25). Löwenklau-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-923615-20-5 .
An unknown council synopsis from the end of the 9th century . Edited, translated and commented on by Lars M. Hoffmann and Wolfram Brandes (= research on Byzantine legal history. Vol. 30). Löwenklau Society, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-923615-28-5 .