Herbert Hunger

Herbert Hunger (9 December 1914 – 9 July 2000) was an Austrian Byzantinist, palaeographer and university professor.

He entered in the Austrian National Library, in the manuscripts department, and was made head of the papyrus collection in 1956.

Thanks to a solid and numerically consistent series of publications, in 1954 he was habilitated in Byzantine Studies and began teaching at the University of Vienna as a private lecturer.

As incumbent president of the AIEB, he organized the XVI International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Vienna, which was attended by more than 1,100 scholars.

He also joined the Byzantinische Zeitschrift as co-editor from 1964 to 1984 and founded and directed several new series of Byzantine studies monographs: Wiener Byzantinistiche Studien (1964), Byzantina Vindobonensia (1965), Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Tabula Imperii Byzantini (1973), Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik (1976).

[9] In 1990, he published a critical edition of Prochoros Kydones' Greek translation of the first book of St. Augustine's treatise "On Free Will" and ps.-Augustine's "On the Ten Plagues of Egypt".