{"id":12676,"date":"2025-05-01T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byzantinistik.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=12676"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:39:46","slug":"pd-dr-thomas-pratsch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/byzantinistik.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/en\/pd-dr-thomas-pratsch\/","title":{"rendered":"PD Dr. Thomas Pratsch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n
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Studied Modern Greek Philology, Byzantine Studies, and British Studies at the Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t and the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. There, in 1997, he received his doctorate from the Faculty of Ancient Studies with a dissertation on Theodoros Studites, an important monastic father in Byzantium of the 8th\/9th century. In 2004, he completed his habilitation in Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin with a thesis on structures and developments within Byzantine hagiographic literature from the 7th to the 11th century. From 1994 to 2011, he was an academic staff member at the academy project “Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Since 1998, he has been teaching Byzantine Studies at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. In the winter semester of 2005\/06, he was a substitute for the chair of Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (4 semester hours per week). From 2012-2017, he was a Heisenberg scholarship student of the German Research Foundation at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz with a project on finance in the Middle Byzantine period. 2017-2019 academic staff member on the project “Port Administration in the Byzantine Empire (7th-11th centuries). Administrative Structure, Official Apparatus and Functionality of Byzantine Seaports” within the framework of the SPP 1630 of the DFG “Ports from the Roman Imperial Period to the Middle Ages. On the Archaeology and History of Regional and Supra-Regional Transport Systems.” <\/p>\n\n

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2017 – 2019<\/td>academic staff member on the project “Port Administration in the Byzantine Empire (7th-11th centuries). Administrative Structure, Official Apparatus and Functionality of Byzantine Seaports” within the framework of the SPP 1630 of the DFG “Ports from the Roman Imperial Period to the Middle Ages. On the Archaeology and History of Regional and Supra-Regional Transport Systems” under the direction of Falco Daim and Claus von Carnap-Bornheim<\/td><\/tr>
2012 – 2017<\/td>Scholarship student in the Heisenberg Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) with association at Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies of the Johannes GutenbergUniversit\u00e4t Mainz with the project “finance, monetary transactions and trade policy. Financial transactions and exchange of goods in the eastern Mediterranean region in the period between the Muslim expansion and the Crusades (7th-11th centuries)”<\/td><\/tr>
2006\/2007<\/td>appointment procedure for the W2-Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the university of Leipzig: 3rd place (tertio loco)<\/td><\/tr>
2005\/2006 Winter Semester<\/td>substitute of the chair of Byzantine Studies at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities<\/td><\/tr>
1994 – 2011<\/td>academic staff member at the academy project “Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period” at the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
1993 – 1994<\/td>freelance scientific-technical employee at the academy project “Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period” at the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2017<\/td>habilitation in Byzantine Studies at Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz<\/td><\/tr>
2004<\/td>habilitation in Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
1997<\/td>doctorate to Dr. phil. at the Faculty of Ancient Studies of the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin <\/td><\/tr>
1993<\/td>M. A. in Byzantine Studies and British Studies at the Faculty of Ancient Studies of the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin; M. A. Thesis: “Investigations on De thematibus Emperor Constantine VII. Porphyrogennetos”<\/td><\/tr>
1988 – 1993<\/td>Studied Byzantine Studies and British Studies at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
1984 – 1988<\/td>Studied Modern Greek Philology and British Studies (Language Mediator degree program) at the Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2013 – present<\/td>Teaching in the subject of Byzantine Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz<\/td><\/tr>
1998 – 2013<\/td>Teaching in the subject of Byzantine Studies, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2009<\/td>Organization (together with R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig and B. Zielke) of the International Conference “Conflict Management 1000 Years Ago. The Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in the Year 1009 \/ Conflict Management 1000 Years Ago. The Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in the Year 1009”, 24-26 September 2009 in Berlin, held at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences<\/td><\/tr>
2007<\/td>Organization (together with A. Effenberger, L. Hoffmann, R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, G. Mietke, G. Prinzing and B. Zielke) of the 22nd meeting of the German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, 22-24 February 2007 in Berlin, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the State Museums Prussian Cultural Heritage<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Organization (together with V. Bulgakova, A. Effenberger, R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, D. R. Reinsch, C. Sode and B. Zielke) of the 8th International Symposion of Byzantine Sigillography, 1-4 October 2003 in Berlin, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and the State Museums Prussian Cultural Heritage<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2003\/2004<\/td>Organization and implementation of a scientific lecture series (together with colleagues from the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences): “The Old Europe. Questions of historical legitimation in the past and present”, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Winter Semester 2003\/04, 9 lectures and a panel discussion from October 2003 to 17 February 2004 <\/td><\/tr>
2002\/2003<\/td>Organization and implementation of a scientific lecture series (together with colleagues from the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences): “Ritual and Message in Pre-Modern Cultures”, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Winter Semester 2002\/03, 8 lectures from 22 October 2002 to 4 February 2003<\/td><\/tr>
2001\/2002<\/td>Organization and implementation of a scientific lecture series (together with colleagues from the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences): “Media Society Antiquity? Information and Communication from Ancient Egypt to Byzantium”, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Winter Semester 2001\/02, 10 lectures and a panel discussion from 20 November 2001 to 12 February 2002 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2006 – 2010<\/td>employee representative in the committees of the Academy Administration, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2017<\/td>Scientific Evaluation: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany<\/td><\/tr>
2006\/2010<\/td>Scientific Evaluation: Fund for the Promotion of Scientific research (FWF), Austria<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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1994 – <\/td>German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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