Herbert Hunger (9 December 1914 – 9 July 2000) was an
Austrian
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Byzantinist
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Hunger was born and died in
Vienna
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. From 1973 to 1982 he served two consecutive terms as president of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Literary works
* ''Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie'' (Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology), 1953, (8th edition 1988)
* ''Reich der Neuen Mitte'', 1965
* ''Byzantinische Grundlagenforschung'', 1973
* ''Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner'', 2 Vols., 1978
* ''Schreiben und Lesen in Byzanz: Die byzantinische Buchkultur'', 1989
* ''Das Denken am Leitseil der Sprache'', 1999
Decorations and awards
* Grand Commander of the
Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
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* 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
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* 1981:
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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History
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Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
* Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna
References
External links
Obituary by Johannes Koder, his student and friend (in German)* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206191652/http://www.byzantium.ac.uk/spbsnews_obituaries.htm Obituary at Byzantium (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies) - please scroll down to 2001 obituaries]
Austrian Academy of Sciences
1914 births
2000 deaths
20th-century Austrian historians
Austrian philologists
Historical linguists
Austrian Byzantinists
Scholars of Medieval Greek
Writers from Vienna
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Grand Commanders of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Austrian medievalists
20th-century philologists
Scholars of Byzantine literature
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
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Members of the American Philosophical Society