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Gyula (Julius) Moravcsik (Budapest, 29 January 1892 – Budapest, 10 December 1972), who usually wrote just as Gy. Moravcsik, was a Hungarian professor of Greek
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Memorial service on Oct. 7 for 'pragmatic Platonist' Julius Moravcsik
''Stanford News Service'', Stanford University, 1 October 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2014
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Gyula (Julius) Moravcsik (Budapest, 29 January 1892 – Budapest, 10 December 1972), who usually wrote just as Gy. Moravcsik, was a Hungarian professor of Greek philology
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and Byzantine
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history who in 1967 was awarded the Pour le Mérite
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for Sciences and Arts.
Scholarship
Moravcsik explored in depth the relationship between Byzantium and theTurkic people
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s, broadly defined and so including Hungarians, and this was reflected in the two volumes of ''Byzantinoturcica'' and the 1953 ''Bizánc és a Magyarság'' (Byzantium and the Magyars).Ritoók, Zsigmond. (1997"The contribution of Hungary to international classical scholarship"
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Hungarian Studies
Hungarian studies is a field of study concerned with the Hungarian language, literature, ethnology, culture, history or society.
According to the current philosophy of Hungarian Studies, all these terrains that used to be treated as separate disci ...
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/ref> With R.J.H. Jenkins, he produced the important new critical and translated edition of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus' '' De Administrando Imperio''. That work was first published in Budapest, 1949, and later at
Dumbarton Oaks
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. Moravcsik also contributed to the later ''Commentary'', also in the Dumbarton Oaks series.
Family
His elder sonMichael Moravcsik
Michael Julius Alexander Moravcsik () (born 1928) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical high energy physicist whose areas of research included the two nucleon system, particle spin symmetries. He also made important contributions to the pra ...
(1928–1989), became professor of physics at University of Oregon
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. His younger son, Julius Moravcsik
Julius Matthew Emil Moravcsik (26 April 1931 – 3 June 2009) was an American philosopher who specialized in ancient Greek philosophy.
His main professional interests were in Greek philosophy – especially Plato, Aristotle, and the pre-So ...
(1931–2009), became a professor of philosophy at Stanford University. ''Stanford News Service'', Stanford University, 1 October 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2014
/ref> His daughter, Edith A. Moravcsik, became a professor of linguistics at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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.
Selected publications
*''Byzantinoturcica'' I and II, Budapest 1942 & 1943. Second edition, Berlin 1958. *''Bizánc és a Magyarság''. 1953. *''Studia Byzantina''. 1967. * *References
Further reading
*Bibliography of Moravcsik's works by R. Benedicty in ''Acta Antiqua Acad. Sc. Hung.'' 10 (1962): 295–313.External links
* 1892 births 1972 deaths Writers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian historians Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Hungarian classical scholars {{Hungary-historian-stub Scholars of Byzantine history