Ralph-Johannes Lilie (30 December 1947, Hamburg) is a German

Byzantinist Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman ...

Life

He graduated from

Munich University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

in 1975 with a dissertation entitled 'The Byzantine Reaction to the Arab Invasions – Studies on the Transformation of Government Structures in the Byzantine States in the 7th and 8th Century' and habilitated in 1982–83 at the Byzantinisch-Neugriechischen Seminar of the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

, where from 1984 to 2005 he was extraordinary professor. Since 1992 he has been working on the

Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit The Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW) is a project to create a prosopographical database of individuals named in textual sources in the Byzantine Empire and surrounding areas in the period from 642 to 1265. The project is a collaboration b ...

(PmbZ) project at the

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), abbreviated BBAW, is the official academic society for the natural sciences and humanities for the German states of Berlin a ...

. His wife is the medievalist Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie.

Selected works

* ''Die byzantinische Reaktion auf die Ausbreitung der Araber. Studien zur Strukturwandlung des byzantinischen Staates im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert''. Institut für Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie der Universität München 1976. * ''Byzanz. Kaiser und Reich''. Böhlau, Köln-Weimar-Wien 1994, . * ''Byzanz. Das zweite Rom''. Siedler, Berlin 2003, . * ''Byzanz und die Kreuzzüge''.

Kohlhammer Verlag W. Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH, or Kohlhammer Verlag, is a German publishing house headquartered in Stuttgart. History Kohlhammer Verlag was founded in Stuttgart on 30 April 1866 by . Kohlhammer had taken over the businesses of his late father-in-l ...

, Stuttgart 2004, . * ''Byzanz: Geschichte des oströmischen Reiches 326–1453''. 5. durchgesehene Auflage, Beck München 2010 ( Beck'sche Reihe Wissen), . * ''Einführung in die byzantinische Geschichte''. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, .

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lilie, Ralphjohannes Living people Writers from Hamburg 1947 births Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin German Byzantinists Scholars of Byzantine history