George Ostrogorsky
George Ostrogorsky | |
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University of Breslau Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
George Alexandrovich Ostrogorsky (
Early life and education
Ostrogorsky was born in
He completed his secondary education in a St. Petersburg classical gymnasium and thus acquired knowledge of Greek early in life.
Career
Ostrogorsky taught at the
Ostrogorsky made the Kingdom of Yugoslavia his permanent home and taught at Belgrade for 40 years until his retirement in 1973, leaving the Chair for Byzantinology to Božidar Ferjančić. He was made a Corresponding Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1946 and a regular member two years later.[1] An Institute of Byzantinology was created within the Academy in 1948 with himself as director, a post he held until his death.[2] He was chief editor of the Institute's house organ, the Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta, through its 16th volume which appeared in 1975. He also supervised the monograph series of the Institute of which the choice items were his own study Pronija (1951) and the multivolume collection of Byzantine Sources for the History of the Nations of Yugoslavia.
Ostrogorsky repaid in more than one way the hospitality he met with in his new country; he created a new generation of Yugoslav Byzantinists, broadened the horizons of Yugoslav historians by the example of his personal research, and provided for them closer contacts with the world scholarly community. Under his guidance, the Belgrade Institute became, along with Munich, Paris, and Dumbarton Oaks, a leading center of research in the field of Byzantinology. Ostrogorsky remained faithful to Belgrade to the very end, although over the years suggestions were made that he take up residence in an American or Soviet center of Byzantine studies.
His best-known work was the standard History of the Byzantine State (German: Geschichte des byzantinischen Staates), a work which saw three German editions (1940, 1952, 1963) and two editions in the English language (1st ed. 1956 (UK) and 1957 (USA), 2nd ed. 1968 (UK) and 1969 (USA)), and translations into more than 10 other languages.[2]
Ostrogorsky died in Belgrade in 1976.
Selected works and editions
- Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1957). History of the Byzantine State. New Brunswick: ISBN 978-0-8135-0599-2.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1968). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-11070-5.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1969). History of the Byzantine State. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-0599-2.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1957). History of the Byzantine State. New Brunswick:
- Ostrogorsky, George (1956). "The Byzantine Emperor and the Hierarchical World Order". JSTOR 4204790.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1959). "The Byzantine Empire in the World of the Seventh Century". JSTOR 1291126.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1959). "Byzantine Cities in the Early Middle Ages". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 13: 45–66. JSTOR 1291128.
- Острогорски, Георгије (1965). Серска област после Душанове смрти. Београд: Научно дело.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1965). "The Byzantine Background of the Moravian Mission". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 19: 1–18. JSTOR 1291223.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1971). "Observations on the Aristocracy in Byzantium". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 25: 1–32. JSTOR 1291302.
- Die ländliche Steuergemeinde des Byzantinischen Reiches im X. Jahrhundert, in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Jg. 20 (1927), S. 1–108 [Dissertation] (Nachdruck 1969).
- Studien zur Geschichte des byzantinischen Bilderstreites. Breslau 1929 [Habilitation] (Nachdruck 1964).
- ISBN 3-406-39759-X).
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-317-94335-8.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-884964-33-6.
Sources
- Hunger, Herbert (1977). "Georg Ostrogorsky, Nachruf". Almanach der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 127: 538–544.
- Pamela Armstrong (2013). Authority in Byzantium. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 330–. ISBN 978-1-4094-3608-9.
