TELEMACHOS C. LOUNGHIS
Research Director
Programme "Institutions, Society, Internal and Foreign Policy of Byzantium"
                 (formerly "Byzantine History Data Bank")

Athens, 18 July 1945 

STUDIES
• 1967: Degree from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens.
• 1969: Élève titulaire de la 4e section de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).
• 1972: Docteur en Histoire du Moyen Âge.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
• 1972-1975: Ensign (Second Lieutenant) in the Hellenic Navy.
• 1975-2009: The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute for Byzantine Research.
• 2000-2009: President of the Center for Marxist Research.

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
• 1997-1998 and 1998-1999: Postgraduate teaching at the University of Athens.
• 1991 and 2008: 2 invitations from the University of Vienna.
• 2003: Invitation from King's College, London.
• 2003: Invitation from the University of Oxford.|
• Invitation from the University of Sverdolvsk / Ekaterinburg (Urals)
• Invitation from the University of Lodz (Poland).
• Various lectures.
• Supervisor of six PhD dissertations.
• Supervising and composition of several collective major historical works.
• 1 funded book.
• Funded research abroad (Rome, Paris, London).

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH
• Byzantine society.
• Historiography / Ideology.
• Administrative institutions.
• International relations.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
• Ca. 40 papers in Greek, English, French, German and Russian.

PUBLICATIONS
• Ca. 110 published papers, articles in encyclopedias and contributions to major collective works (e.g. Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους / History of the Greek Nation, etc.). Various articles on poetry, recent history and local history.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• Les ambassades byzantines en Occident, depuis la fondation des États barbares jusqu'aux Croisades (407-1096), Athens 1980.
• Δοκίμιο για την κοινωνική εξέλιξη στη διάρκεια των λεγόμενων "Σκοτεινών αιώνων" (602-867) / Essay on Social Evolution During the So-called "Dark Ages", Athens 1985 (in reprint, in Greek).
• Επισκόπηση Βυζαντινής Ιστορίας (324-1204) / Byzantine History Review (324-1204), Athens 1989, 2nd ed. 1998 (in Greek).
• Κωνσταντίνου Πορφυρογέννητου, De administrando imperio, Μια μέθοδος ανάγνωσης / Constantine Porphyrogenitos', De administrando imperio, A Reading Method, Thessalonica 1990 (in Greek).
• Ιδεολογία της Βυζαντινής Ιστοριογραφίας / The Ideology of Byzantine Historiography, Athens 1993 (in Greek).
• Ιουστινιανός Πέτρος Σαββάτιος. Κοινωνία, ιδεολογία και πολιτική τον 6ο μ. Χ. αιώνα / Justinianus Petrus Sabbatius. Society, Ideology and Politics in the 6th c. A.D., Thessalonica 2005 (in Greek).
• Η Μικρά Ασία των Θεμάτων / Asia Minor of the Themes (collective), Athens 1998 (in Greek).
• Byzantine Diplomacy. A Seminar (collective), Athens 2005.
• Regesten der Kaiserurkunden des ostromischen Reiches von 476 bis 565 (collective), Nicosia 2005.
• Βυζαντινά στρατεύματα στη Δύση / Byzantine Armies in the West (collective), Athens 2008 (in Greek).