George Ostrogorsky
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| Born |
19 January 1902 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | 24 October 1976 (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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