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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 1

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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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Biography Hunger was born in Vienna as the only child of the state rail councillor Hermann and Johanna née Kölbl. He attended the Humanistische Gymnasium in the Hietzing district of Vienna from 1924 to 1932. He studied classical philology with Ludwig Radermacher and Karl Mras, classical archaeology with Camillo Praschniker and German studies with Josef Nadler at the University of Vienna, and graduated in 1936 with a dissertation on Euripides supervised by Johannes Mewaldt. After a brief spell of teaching practice at the Akademisches Gymnasium in central Vienna from January 1937, he enlisted as a one-year volunteer to pursue an officer's career with the cavalry of the Austrian Armed Forces (i.e. major general Alfred von Hubicki's Schnelle Division) in the autumn of the same year. His mobile unit was incorporated into the Wehrmacht as the 4th Light Division shortly after the Anschluss of Austria, in April 1938. Hunger applied for leave from the army in October 1938 and worked as a temporary teacher at the Realgymnasium XIV in Penzing, Vienna, until July 1939, when he was called up for military exercises and the subsequent launch of World War II. His unit participated in the invasion of Poland in September and…

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Research activity Hunger is considered the founder of the Vienna School of Byzantine Studies. While his output covered various aspects of Byzantine studies, his main concerns were Byzantine society and literature, book culture in Byzantium and Greek handwriting. He became interested in Greek palaeography during his years at the Austrian National Library, while studying the Greek papyri held by the institution and working on the catalogue of the Greek manuscripts of the library. His interest in Greek handwriting led him to elaborate and publish capital contributions on the subject, being his communication to the Paris colloquium of 1974 and, later, the organization and the launch of the Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800–1600, being the catalogue of all known Greek medieval scribes. Hunger is also responsible for having coined terms such as "Perlschrift" ("pearl script"), "Fettaugenmode" (literally "resembling fatty globules") and "Auszeichnungsschriften" ("distinctive script") to describe particular styles of medieval Greek handwriting. Hunger was also a respected textual critic. In 1959 and 1970 he revised the volumes I/2 and I/1 respectively of August Hausrath's Bibliotheca Teubneriana edition of the Corpus fabularum Aesopicarum. In 1964 he published the first volume of the Wiener byzantinistische Studien (WBS) series, a monograph on the proems…

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Monographs Prooimion. Elemente der byzantinischen Kaiseridee in den Arengen der Urkunden (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien, 1), Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1964, ISBN 978-3-7001-1265-5 Reich der neuen Mitte. Der christliche Geist der byzantinischen Kultur, Graz: Verlag Styria, 1965 Johannes Chortasmenos (ca. 1340 – ca. 1436/37). Briefe, Gedichte und kleine Schriften (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien, 7), Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1969, ISBN 978-3-7001-0887-0 Aspekte der griechischen Rhetorik von Gorgias bis zum Untergang von Byzanz (Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 277/3), Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1972, ISBN 978-3-7001-0883-2 Byzantinische Grundlagenforschung. Gesammelte Aufsätze (Collected Studies, 21), London: Variorum Reprints, 1973 Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner (Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, 12.5.1-2), München: C. H. Beck, 1978 Des Nikephoros Blemmydes Basilikos Andrias und dessen Metaphrase von Georgios Galesiotes und Georgios Oinaiotes. Ein weiterer Beitrag zum Verständnis der byzantinischen Schrift-Koine (with Ihor Ševčenko; Wiener Byzantinistische Studien, 18), Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1986 Epidosis. Gesammelte Schriften zur byzantinischen Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte, München: Editio Maris, 1989, ISBN 9783925801051 Schreiben und Lesen in Byzanz. Die byzantinische Buchkultur, München: C. H. Beck, 1989 Das Denken am Leitseil der Sprache. Johann Nestroys geniale wie auch banale Verfremdung der Sprache durch Neologismen (Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen…

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Edited volumes Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Wien: Hollinck, 1953 Studien zur griechischen Paläographie (Biblos-Schriften, 5), Wien: Hollinck, 1954 Corpus fabularum Aesopicarum (with August Hausrath, Bibliotheca Teubneriana), Lipsiae: B.G. Teubner, vols. I/1 and I/2, 1959–1970 Theodoros Prodromos, Der byzantinische Katz–Mäuse–Krieg (Byzantina Vindobonensia, 3), Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1963 Ein byzantinisches Rechenbuch des 15. Jahrhunderts. 100 Aufgaben aus dem Codex Vindobonensis Phil. Gr. 65. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar (with Kurt Vogel; Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 78/22), Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1963 Akten der XVI. internationaler Byzantinistenkongress. Wien, 4.–9. Oktober 1981 (Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik, 31.1–2 and 31.1–7), 2 vols., Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981 Anonyme Metaphrase zu Anna Komnene, Alexias XI–XIII. Ein Beitrag zur Erschließung der byzantinischen Umgangssprache (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien, 15), Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981, ISBN 978-3-7001-0376-9 Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800–1600 (with Ernst Gamillscheg and Dieter Harlfinger, vol. III also with Paolo Eleuteri; Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik, III.1–3), 3 vols., Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981–1997 Studien zum Patriarchatsregister von Konstantinopel (vol. II with Otto Kresten; Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 383 and 647), 2 vols.,…

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Selected articles — (1954), "Die Perlschrift, eine Stilrichtung der griechischen Buchschrift des 11. Jahrhunderts", in Hunger, Herbert (ed.), Studien zur griechischen Paläographie, Biblos-Schriften, 5, Wien: Hollinck, pp. 22–32 — (1961), "Antikes und mittelalterliches Buch- und Schriftwesen", in Hunger, Herbert; Stegmüller, Otto; Erbse, Harmut; Imhof, Max; Büchner, Karl; Beck, Hans-Georg; Rüdiger, Horst (eds.), Geschichte der Textüberlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur, Zürich: Atlantis-Verlag, pp. 25–147 — (1977), "Minuskel und Auszeichnungsschriften im 10.–12. Jahrhundert", in Glénisson, Jean; Bompaire, Jacques; Irigoin, Jean (eds.), La paléographie grecque et byzantine, Colloques internationaux de Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 559, Paris: Éditions du CNRS, pp. 201–220

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Academic recognition Hunger was honoured with three Festschriften by his friends and colleagues: Koder, Johannes, ed. (1964). Akrothinia sodalium Seminarii Byzantini Vindobonensis Herberto Hunger oblata. Wien: Universität Wien, Institut für Byzantinistik. Hörandner, Wolfram; Koder, Johannes; Kresten, Otto; Trapp, Erich, eds. (1984). Byzantios. Festschrift für Herbert Hunger zum 70. Geburtstag. Wien: Ernst Becvar. Hörandner, Wolfram; Koder, Johannes; Kresten, Otto, eds. (1994). ΑΝΔΡΙΑΣ. Festschrift für Herbert Hunger zum 80. Geburtstag. Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik, 44. Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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Decorations and awards Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece) Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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1968: Wilhelm Hartel Prize 1979: City of Vienna Prize for Humanities 1980: elected to the American Philosophical Society 1981: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna

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Bibliography Koder, Johannes (2000), "Herbert Hunger (1914–2000)" (PDF), Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik, 50: V–XIII Kresten, Otto (1999–2000), "Herbert Hunger" (PDF), Almanach (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), 150: 457–477, ISSN 0378-8644

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Short biography with picture Obituary at Byzantium (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies) - please scroll down to 2001 obituaries

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Austrian Academy of Sciences Review of 'Festschrift' outlining the history of the Byzantine Institute of the University of Vienna, founded by Herbert Hunger

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