George Ostrogorsky

Georg Ostrogorsky (Russian Георгий Александрович Острогорский / Georgi Alexandrovich Ostrogorski; . * 6 Januarjul / January 19 1902greg in Saint Petersburg, . † October 24, 1976 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslavian Byzantinist Russian origin.

Life

During the Russian Revolution his family emigrated to Finland. He studied in France and Germany, received his doctorate in Heidelberg and acquired the German citizenship. Since 1928 he was a lecturer in Wroclaw, but was dismissed in 1933 from the University service. He went to Prague and then took over the management of the laid to Belgrade seminary Kondakovianum. He was appointed Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Belgrade and in 1948 was founder and director of the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences, one of the leading research centers in addition to Paris, Munich and Dumbarton Oaks. His main work is the book History of the Byzantine State, which has been translated into numerous languages ​​and has long been regarded as a standard work, but is now obsolete in many ways. Ostrogorsky without doubt one of the most important Byzantinists, was recorded in 1966 in the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. He was also a corresponding member of the Academies of Sciences in Athens and Vienna. He was friends with Percy Ernst Schramm.

Of particular interest was the Byzantine economic history.

Publications in selection

• The rural community control of the Byzantine Empire in the tenth century, in: Vierteljahrsschrift of Social and Economic History 19 (1927 ) (reprint 1969) [ Dissertation ]
• Studies in the History of the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy. Breslau 1929 (reprint 1964) [ Habilitation ]
• History of the Byzantine State. Handbook of Classical Studies XII.1.2, CH Beck, Munich 1940, 3rd edition 1963, ISBN 3-406-01414-3. - Special edition without scientific apparatus Byzantine history 324-1453, CH Beck, Munich 1965 and reprints, ISBN 3-406-39759- X.