Hunger, Herbert, 1914-2000

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Name (Latin)
Hunger, Herbert, 1914-2000
Other forms of name
Hunger, Herbert, 1914-
Date of birth
1914-12-09
Date of death
2000-07-09
Associated country
Austria
Occupation
Byzantinists
Classicists
College teachers
Associated Language
ger
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 66479274
Wikidata: Q94733
Library of congress: n 80159086
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Wikipedia description:

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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