Hans Georg Beck

Hans-Georg Beck, FBA (18 February 1910 — 25 May 1999), was a German scholar, specializing in Byzantine studies.

In 1930, he entered the Ludwig-Maximilian University, where in 1936 he defended his doctoral thesis in theology, "Vorhersehung und Vorherbestimmung in der theologischen Literatur der Byzantiner" (English: Providence and Predestination in Byzantine Theological Literature), which was published in Rome the following year as volume 114 of the Orientalia Christiana Analecta series.

Jahrhundert" (English: Theodoros Metochites: The Crisis of the Byzantine Worldview in the Fourteenth Century).

[1] Hans Georg Beck was a member of many national academies of sciences and scientific societies.

In 1962 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and chaired commissions on the publication of the 'Corpus of Greek Acts' and on patristics.