Gyula Moravcsik

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The cover of the Berlin edition of Byzantinoturcica I by Gyula Moravcsik.

Gyula (Julius) Moravcsik (Budapest, 29 January 1892 – Budapest, 10 December 1972), who usually wrote just as Gy. Moravcsik, was a Hungarian professor of Greek

Byzantine history who in 1967 was awarded the Pour le Mérite
for Sciences and Arts.

Scholarship

Moravcsik explored in depth the relationship between Byzantium and the

Turkic peoples, 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).[1]

With

R.J.H. Jenkins, he produced the critical and translated edition of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus' De Administrando Imperio. That work was first published in Budapest, 1949, and later at Dumbarton Oaks. Moravcsik also contributed to the later Commentary, also in the Dumbarton Oaks series.[citation needed
]

Family

His elder son

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His grandson, Andrew Moravcsik, became Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.[citation needed
]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Ritoók, Zsigmond. (1997) "The contribution of Hungary to international classical scholarship", Hungarian Studies, 12. Archived here.
  2. ^ Memorial service on Oct. 7 for 'pragmatic Platonist' Julius Moravcsik Stanford News Service, Stanford University, 1 October 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2014. Archived here.

Further reading

  • Bibliography of Moravcsik's works by R. Benedicty in Acta Antiqua Acad. Sc. Hung. 10 (1962): 295–313.

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