Gyula (Julius) Moravcsik (Budapest, 29 January 1892 – Budapest, 10 December 1972), who usually wrote just as Gy. Moravcsik, was a Hungarian professor of Greek

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and

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history who in 1967 was awarded the

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for Sciences and Arts.

Scholarship

Moravcsik explored in depth the relationship between Byzantium and the

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s, broadly defined and so including Hungarians, and this was reflected in the two volumes of ''Byzantinoturcica'' and the 1953 ''Bizánc és a Magyarság'' (Byzantium and the Magyars).Ritoók, Zsigmond. (1997
"The contribution of Hungary to international classical scholarship"
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, he produced the important new critical and translated edition of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus' ''

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''. That work was first published in Budapest, 1949, and later at

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. Moravcsik also contributed to the later ''Commentary'', also in the Dumbarton Oaks series.

Family

His elder son Michael Moravcsik (1928–1989), became professor of physics at

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. His younger son,

Julius Moravcsik Julius Matthew Emil Moravcsik (26 April 1931 – 3 June 2009) was an American philosopher who specialized in ancient Greek philosophy. His main professional interests were in Greek philosophy – especially Plato, Aristotle, and the pre-Socra ...

(1931–2009), became a professor of philosophy at

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. Memorial service on Oct. 7 for 'pragmatic Platonist' Julius Moravcsik
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/ref> His daughter,

Edith A. Moravcsik Edith Andrea Moravcsik () (born 1939) is a Hungarian-born American linguist. Career Edith A. Moravcsik was born May 2, 1939, in Budapest, Hungary as the daughter of Gyula Moravcsik. Julius Moravcsik and Michael Moravcsik were her brothers. ...

, became a professor of linguistics at the

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Selected publications

*''Byzantinoturcica'' I and II, Budapest 1942 & 1943. Second edition, Berlin 1958. *''Bizánc és a Magyarság''. 1953. *''Studia Byzantina''. 1967. * *

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* 1892 births 1972 deaths Writers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian historians Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Hungarian classical scholars {{Hungary-historian-stub Scholars of Byzantine history

Scholarship

Family

Selected publications

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