HERBERT HUNGER Historian; (b. Vienna, 09 December 1914 – d. Vienna, 09 July 2000)

University professor: University of Vienna, 1962-1985; head of the Collection of Papirus at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, 1956-1962.

Membership of SASA: Department of Historical Sciences; foreign member from 7 May 1981

Accession speech: Delivered the lecture titled ‘Byzantine Matrimonial Law in the 14^th century, Theory and Practice’ at SASA on 30 September 1971

Awards and recognitions:  dr. h. c. of the universities of Athens, Chicago, Thessaloniki, Helsinki, Ioannina