Wolfram Hörandner

Wolfram Hörandner (born July 2, 1942 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Byzantinist .

Life

Wolfram Hörandner studied Classical Philology and Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1966 with Herbert Hunger with a dissertation on the transmission of the works of Theodoros Prodromos . In 1967 he became an assistant at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna , in 1971 lecturer at the University of Salzburg , 1975 at the University of Vienna, university lecturer in 1980 after his habilitation with a work on Byzantine rhetoric and in 1987 associate professor .

His main research interests include Byzantine philology and Byzantine literature. With Johannes Diethart he edited the poems of Konstantinos Stilbes . Since the early phase of the Lexicon on Byzantine Graciousness , he has also played a key role in the work on this dictionary.

From 1992 to 2007 he was editor of the Yearbook of Austrian Byzantine Studies (1992–2000 together with Herbert Hunger , 2004–2007 together with Martin Hinterberger). From 2001 to 2011 he chaired the Commission pour le Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines .

Fonts (in selection)

• A Companion to Byzantine Poetry (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, vol. 4) , ed. By Wolfram Hörandner, Andreas Rhoby and Nikolaos Zagklas. Leiden - Boston 2019. ISBN 978-90-04-39288-5
• Facettes de la litterature byzantine. Contributions choisies de Wolfram Hörandner , éd. by Paolo Odorico, Andreas Rhoby and Elisabeth Schiffer (Dossiers Byzantins 17). Paris 2017. ISBN 978-10-9482401-7
• Form and function. Remarques sur la poésie dans la société byzantine (Séminaires byzantins 4). Paris 2017. ISBN 978-2-251-44675-2
  • In modern Greek: Η ποίηση στη βυζαντινή κοινωνία. Μορφή και λειτουργία , trans. by Ioannis Vassis and Marina Loukaki. Athens 2017. ISBN 978-960-6736-24-7
• Constantinus Stilbes. Poemata . Rec.Johannes Diethart et Wolfram Hörandner ( Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ). Munich 2005. ISBN 3-598-71235-9
• The prose rhythm in the rhetorical literature of the Byzantines (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 16). Vienna 1981. ISBN 3-7001-0405-7
• Theodoros Prodromos. Historical poems. Text and commentary (Vienna Byzantine Studies 11). Vienna 1974. ISBN 3-7001-0066-3

literature

• Martin Hinterberger - Elisabeth Schiffer (Ed.): Byzantine language art. Studies of Byzantine Literature. Dedicated to Wolfram Hörandner on his 65th birthday (= Byzantine Archives. Volume 20). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 3-11-019501-1 .
• 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-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 3-901232-95-8 .

Web links

• Horns, tungsten .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• curriculum vitae