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