Georgiy Aleksandrovich Ostrogorskiy, known in Serbian as Georgije Aleksandrovic Ostrogorski and English as George Alexandrovich Ostrogorsky, was a Russian-born Yugoslavian historian and Byzantinist who was widely known for his achievements in Byzantine studies.
13 Facts About George Ostrogorsky
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George Ostrogorsky was a professor at the University of Belgrade.
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George Ostrogorsky completed his secondary education in a St Petersburg classical gymnasium and thus acquired knowledge of Greek early in life.
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George Ostrogorsky began his university studies at the University of Heidelberg, where he devoted himself initially to philosophy, economics, and sociology, though he took classes in classical archaeology.
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George Ostrogorsky's teachers included Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Rickert, Alfred Weber and Ludwig Curtius.
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George Ostrogorsky then taught as Privatdozent in Breslau from 1928 and moved to Belgrade in 1933.
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George Ostrogorsky taught at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy, where he was the chair for Byzantinology.
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George Ostrogorsky made the Kingdom of Yugoslavia his permanent home and taught at Belgrade for 40 years until his retirement in 1973, leaving the Chair for Byzantinology to Bozidar Ferjancic.
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George Ostrogorsky was made a Corresponding Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1946 and a regular member two years later.
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George Ostrogorsky was chief editor of the Institute's house organ, the Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, through its 16th volume which appeared in 1975.
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George Ostrogorsky supervised the monograph series of the Institute of which the choice items were his own study Pronija and the multivolume collection of Byzantine Sources for the History of the Nations of Yugoslavia.
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George Ostrogorsky repaid in more than one way the hospitality he met with in his new country; he created a new generation of Yugoslav Byzantinists, broadened the horizons of Yugoslav historians by the example of his personal research, and provided for them closer contacts with the world scholarly community.
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George Ostrogorsky remained faithful to Belgrade to the very end, although over the years suggestions were made that he take up residence in an American or Soviet center of Byzantine studies.