Herbert Hunger

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Herbert Hunger 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 Zei

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"It is clear that for Herbert Hunger, Byzantium was not an exotic phenomenon in the historical and political self-awareness of Austria in the twentieth century, but a legacy and consequently a claim whose pointed cultivation should certainly benefit the countrys image. This – one might say – national goal, which we today would rather describe as a European goal, has, as we all know, been realized."

Herbert Hunger