Herbert Hunger

thumb|Herbert Hunger Herbert Hunger (1914–2000) was an Austrian Byzantinist and a Wehrmacht soldier. He was the first professor of Byzantine studies in Austria from 1962 to 1985, president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies from 1976 to 1986, and president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1973 to 1982. Quotes about Herbert Hunger It is clear that for Herbert Hunger, Byzantium was not an exotic phenomenon in the historical and political self-awareness of Austria in the twentieth century, but a legacy and consequently a claim whose pointed cultivation should certainly benefit the country's image. This – one might say – national goal, which we today would rather describe as a European goal, has, as we all know, been realized. Evangelos Chrysos, "Vierzig Jahre Wiener Byzantinistik. Festansprache am 4. Dezember 2002", in Wiener Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik. Beiträge zum Symposion vierzig Jahre Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien im Gedenken an Herbert Hunger (Wien, 4.–7. Dezember 2002), ed. Wolfram Hörandner, Johannes Koder and Maria A. Stassinopoulou, Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004, p. 34. External links Category:1914 births Category:2000 deaths Category:Educators from Austria Category:Historians from Austria Category:Linguists from Austria Category:Philologists Category:Fellows of the British Academy Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Editors Category:Soldiers Category:People from Vienna