!!!Hunger, Herbert

b. Vienna, Dec. 9, 1914, 
d. Vienna, July 9, 2000, Byzantine scholar, 1956-1962 head of the 
papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library, 1962-1985 
professor at the University of Vienna, 1973-1982 president of the 
Austrian  Academy of Sciences; founder of the Vienna school of 
Byzantine studies.

!Works
Lexikon der griechischen und roemischen Mythologie, 1953, 
%%sup 8/%1988; Studien zur griechischen Palaeographie, 1954; 
Byzantinische Geisteswelt, 1958; Antikes und mittelalterliches Buch- 
u. Schriftwesen, 1961; Schreiben und Lesen in Byzanz, 1989; Epidosis, 
1989 (collected works); Prochoros Kydones, 1990; catalogue of the 
Greek manuscripts of the Austrian National Library, 6 vols., 
1961-1995; Das Denken am Leitseil der Sprache, 1999.

!Literature
Oesterreichische Byzantinische Gesellschaft, Bibliographie 
H. H., 2001.



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