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George Alexandrovič Ostrogorsky

George Ostrogorsky
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Born (1902-01-19)19 January 1902
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died 24 October 1976(1976-10-24) (aged 74)
Belgrade, SR Serbia
Residence Belgrade (since 1933)
Nationality Yugoslav
Fields Byzantine studies
Alma mater University of Heidelberg
Academic advisors Karl Jaspers
Heinrich Rickert
Alfred Weber
Ludwig Curtius
Percy Ernst Schramm
Spouse Fanula Papazoglu

Georgy Alexandrovič Ostrogorsky (Russian: Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Острого́рский; 19 January 1902–24 October 1976), known in Serbian as Georgije Ostrogorski (Serbian Cyrillic: Георгије Острогорски) and English as George Ostrogorsky, was a Russian-born Yugoslavian historian and Byzantinist who acquired worldwide reputations in Byzantine studies. He was a professor at the University of Belgrade.

Ostrogorsky was born at Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, the son of a secondary school principal and a writer on pedagogical subjects.

He completed his secondary education in a St. Petersburg classical gymnasium and thus acquired knowledge of Greek early in life. He began his university studies in Heidelberg, Germany (1921), where he devoted himself initially to philosophy, economics, and sociology, though he also took classes in classical archeology. His teachers included Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Rickert, Alfred Weber and Ludwig Curtius. His interest in history, especially Byzantine history, was awakened by a young Dozent by the name of Percy Ernst Schramm. After studying various aspects of Byzantinology in Paris (1924–25), Ostrogorsky received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg (1927) with a dissertation in which he combined his interests in economics and Byzantine history. He then taught as Privatdozent in Breslau from 1928 and moved to Belgrade in 1933.


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