Peter Schreiner (Byzantinist)

Peter Schreiner attended the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and passed his Abitur there in 1961.

On February 23, 1967, he received his doctorate under Hans-Georg Beck with a thesis on the Byzantine Minor Chronicles.

He presented a standard work on the history of the Byzantine Empire, the fourth updated edition of which appeared in 2011.

He received honorary doctorates from the universities Tarnovo (1992), Belgrade (2003), Sofia (2004), Galați (2009) and Komotini (2014).

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