{"id":12585,"date":"2025-04-27T13:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byzantinistik.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=12585"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:53:43","slug":"univ-prof-dr-guenter-prinzing-pensioniert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/byzantinistik.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/en\/univ-prof-dr-guenter-prinzing-pensioniert\/","title":{"rendered":"Univ.-Prof. Dr. G\u00fcnter Prinzing (retired)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n
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Born 1943 Hamburg, 1963-1969 program of study of Byzantine Studies, Slavic Studies and the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Hamburg, Vienna, Lyon and Munich, July 1971 doctorate at the LMU Munich, with a dissertation in the subject of Byzantine Studies (with Professor H.-G. Beck) on Byzantine-South Slavic relations at the beginning of the 13th century (= Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia 12, Munich 1972), 1971-1975 \u201cResearch Assistant\u201d at the Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum, Historical Institute (with Professor H.-W. Haussig), 1976-1982 \u201cResearch Assistant\u201d at the WWU M\u00fcnster, at the Seminar for Byzantine Studies (with Professor Jadran Ferluga), June 1980 habilitation in the subject of Byzantine Studies there (on the file corpus of the Archbishop of Ohrid Demetrios Chomatenos), February 1982 appointment as Professor on time at the WWU M\u00fcnster, September 1986 appointment to Mainz to the professorship for Byzantine Studies at the Historical Seminar Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t, 1993 offer of appointment to the professorship for ‘Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology’ of the University of Hamburg declined; Jan.-March 2004 Visiting fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.<\/p>\n\n

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February 2007 – End of 2012<\/td>Project manager of the academy project \u201cProsopography of the Middle Byzantine Period\u201d at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities<\/td><\/tr>
2001 – 2011<\/td>Chairperson of the “German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies”<\/td><\/tr>
1999 – 2009<\/td>Head of the Mainz branch of the S\u00fcdosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Munich<\/td><\/tr>
since 1998<\/td>Co-editor of the S\u00fcdost-Forschungen, Munich<\/td><\/tr>
since 1994<\/td>Ed. of the series: Mainzer Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik (Verlag Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden); from 2017 co-editor, together with Johannes Pahlitzsch <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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