Johannes Koder#


Johannes Koder
Membership Number:3234
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Elected:2012
Main Country of Residence:AUSTRIA



Present and Previous Positions
  • 2008 - 2009 Director of excavations at Ephesos, Turkey
  • 2007 - 2009 Interim director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
  • 2002 - 2008 Senior fellow (2005-2008 chair) for Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D. C.
  • 1985 - 2010 Full professor of Byzantine studies and 1987-1989/1991-1993/1995-2010 director of the Institut for Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies, University of Vienna
  • 1978 - 1985 Professor for Byzantine studies and director of the department for Byzantine Studies, University of Mainz
  • 1970 - 1071 scholarship Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Munich (1 year)
  • 1967 scholarship Austrian Archaeological Institute, Athens (6 months)
  • 1965 - 1978 Ass. and later assoc. professor at the University of Vienna

Fields of Scholarship
  • Byzantine monastic mysticism
  • Identity of Byzantines and Greeks in the Middle Ages
  • Byzantine economic history and material culture
  • Hymnography of the Byzantine church
  • Historical geography of the Eastern Mediterranean, 4th – 15th centuries

Honours and Awards
  • 2016 Doctor Honoris Causa, Democritus University of Thrace
  • 2012 President, Association Internationale des Études Byzantines
  • 2011 Full member, Austrian Archaeological Institute
  • 2011 Dr. h. c. University of Ioannina, Greece
  • 2010 Cross of Merit for Science and Art, Ist class, Republic of Austria
  • 2007 Foreign member, Athens Academy, Greece
  • 2006 Dr. h. c. University of Athens, Greece
  • 2004 Distinguished Decoration in Gold for Service to the Republic of Austria
  • 2000 Full member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • 1996 Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, Hellenic Republic
  • 1989 Corresponding member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • 1987 Honorary member, Archaeological Society of Athens
  • 1974 Sandoz Award for Humanities

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