ХЕРБЕРТ ХУНГЕР УНД ДИЕ WИЕНЕР СЦХУЛЕ ДЕР БYЗАНТИНИСТИК

On 9 December 2014, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Herbert Hunger (1914–2000), the founder of the Institute of Byzantine Studies (today: and Modern Greek Studies) of the University of Vienna and long-standing president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences would have celebrated his hundredth birthday. On this occasion, distinguished scholars from different parts of Europe and the United States of America met in Vienna to honor the famous researcher and to discuss the afterlife of his academic work in the fields of international Byzantine Studies. Prof. Dr. Andreas Külzer collected several significant contributions of the conference in this volume, which could serve as a source of scientific inspiration especially for scholars working in the various parts of history, historical geography and fundamental research.