Hunger, Herbert, 1914-2000
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- authorized access point: Hunger, Herbert; additional data in authority record: Austrian Byzantinist and classical philologist; born 1914 in Vienna; died 2000 in Vienna ( (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online catalog, viewed January 21, 2020) )
- German Wikipedia, viewed January 21, 2020(Herbert Hunger; born December 9, 1914, in Vienna; died July 9, 2000, in Vienna; Austrian Byzantinist; from 1956 to 1962, he was director of the Papyrussammlung at the Austrian National Library; he taught at the University of Vienna from 1962 to 1985; from 1973 to 1982, he was president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
- Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, 1953.
- Studien zum Patriarchatsregister von Konstantinopel, 1981.
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Herbert Hunger (9 December 1914 – 9 July 2000) was an Austrian Byzantinist, palaeographer and university professor, who held the first chair in Byzantine studies in Austria from 1962 to 1985, and presided over the International Association of Byzantine Studies from 1976 to 1986. He was the editor-in-chief of the Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik from 1954 until his death, and co-editor-in-chief of the Byzantinische Zeitschrift from 1964 to 1983. He initiated the Tabula Imperii Byzantini project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1966 and was the Academy's president from 1973 to 1982. He specialised in secular Byzantine literature. Hunger served in an armoured Wehrmacht division throughout World War II.
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