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Vera von Falkenhausen | |
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| Born | 1938 |
| Nationality | German |
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| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans-Georg Beck |
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| Discipline | Byzantine Studies |
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Vera von Falkenhausen (born 1938) is a German Byzantinist who lives and works in Italy.
Vera von Falkenhausen pursued Byzantine studies at the University of Munich, where she made her thesis in 1966 under Hans-Georg Beck. She then spent the years 1968–1970 at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, D.C., on a scholarship. [1] Since 1974 she has been active as a professor of Byzantine history and literature at the universities of Pisa, Basilicata (Potenza), Chieti, and finally at Rome Tor Vergata. Since 2007 she is a professor emerita.
Her field of research are the various aspects of Byzantine rule in southern Italy and Sicily. Much of her work has been devoted to the analysis and critical edition of Greek primary sources. Since 2006 she is the editor of the Archivio storico per la Calabria e la Lucania, founded in 1931 by Paolo Orsi and Umberto Zanotti Bianco, on behalf of the Associazione Nazionale per gli Interessi del Mezzogiorno d'Italia. In addition, she is a member of the scientific advisory council of the journal Nea Rhome, founded in 2004. [2]
From 2010 to 2012 she was the chair of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini.
Karl Krumbacher was a German scholar who was an expert on Byzantine Greek language, literature, history and culture. He was one of the principal founders of Byzantine Studies as an independent academic discipline in modern universities.
Hermann Julius Theodor Hettner, was a German literary historian and museum director.
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Sirianus was the Byzantine catapan of Italy, the second appointed by the Emperor Constantine X Doukas. He arrived in Bari, the seat of the catapanate, in 1061 or 1062, replacing Marules, who had been appointed the previous year. Constantine was the last emperor who took an interest in recovering ground in Italy, but Sirianus was on the defensive against the Norman state and recovered no territory. According to the annals of Lupus Protospatharius, the Norman duke Robert Guiscard captured Oria and Brindisi in the year of his appointment and Taranto in the following year. He was succeeded in 1064 by Abulchares.
Georgiy Aleksandrovich Ostrogorskiy, known in Serbian as Georgije Aleksandrovič Ostrogorski and English as George Alexandrovich Ostrogorsky, was a Russian-born Yugoslavian historian and Byzantinist who was widely known for his achievements in Byzantine studies. He was a professor at the University of Belgrade.
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Medingen Abbey or Medingen Convent is a former Cistercian nunnery. Today it is a residence for women of the Protestant Lutheran faith near the Lower Saxon town of Bad Bevensen and is supervised by the Monastic Chamber of Hanover. The current director of the abbey (Äbtissin) is the art historian Dr Kristin Püttmann.
Werner F. Korte (1906–1982) was a German musicologist who in 1932 was appointed head of the Seminar of Musicology at the University of Münster. His books include Die Harmonik des frühen XV. Jahrhunderts in ihrem Zusammenhang mit der Formtechnik (1929), Studie zur Geschichte der Musik in Italien im ersten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts (1933), Robert Schumann (1937), and Bruckner und Brahms (1963), among others.
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The Soest Feud, or Feud of Soest, was a feud that took place from 1444 to 1449 in which the town of Soest claimed its freedom from Archbishop Dietrich of Cologne (1414–1463), who tried to restore his rule. The town of Soest opposed this attempt on 5 June 1444 by accepting a new suzerain, John I, the Duke of Cleves-Mark, who guaranteed the town its old rights as well as new ones. As a result Emperor Frederick III imposed the imperial ban on the town. The victory of the town meant that Soest had de facto more freedom than a free imperial city until it was annexed by Prussia, but at the same time it had to forfeit its economic power because it was now an enclave within Cologne's territory.
Theodora Büttner is a retired East German historian. For many years she was a professor at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Much of her own research was focused on the precolonial history of Africa and on the anti-colonial liberation movements.
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