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Byzantine Studies, Manuscript Studies, Codicology, Greek Palaeography, Textual Transmission, Transmission of Knowledge, Intellectual History, Maximus Planudes, Greek Epistolography, Hesychast Controversy, Classics, Ancient Geography, Claudius Ptolemy, Digital Humanities, Russian Language and Literature
Austria, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City

Biography

Renate Burri is currently a Lecturer for Greek and Latin at the Institute of the Ancient and Byzantine World (Department of Classics), University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
She studied Classics and Russian Philology at the Universities of Bern, St. Petersburg, and Khabarovsk (Far East of Russia), and received her PhD in Classics (Greek Philology) from Göttingen University with a dissertation on the Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy’s Geography (awarded with the Christian Gottlob Heyne Prize). She worked as a Research Associate both in Classics and Ancient Christianity at the Universities of Bern, Göttingen, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. She has been awarded numerous fellowships, e.g. by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Harvard University. Most recently she was a Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Byzantine Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Renate Burri is the author of the book Die ›Geographie‹ des Ptolemaios im Spiegel der griechischen Handschriften (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013). Her research interests include Byzantine studies, manuscript studies, the history of sciences (especially ancient geography), church history (the Hesychast Controversy), and Greek/Byzantine epistolography. She is currently working on a monograph on Byzantine manuscript production in East and West after the Fall of Constantinople and on the editio princeps of Gregory Akindynos’ Refutation of Palamas’ Third Letter to him.

Activities

Employment (10)

University of Fribourg: Fribourg, CH

2024-07-01 to present | Lecturer (Department of Classics)
Employment
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Austrian Academy of Sciences: Vienna, AT

2022-09-01 to 2024-02-29 | Postdoc Researcher (Department of Byzantine Studies)
Employment
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2020-02-01 to 2021-09-30 | PI (Center for Global Studies)
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University of Tübingen: Tübingen, DE

2019-12-01 to 2020-08-31 | Editor (temporary) (University Library)
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2015-07-01 to 2019-03-31 | Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) (Institute for Historical Theology)
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Berlin, DE

2011-06-01 to 2014-03-31 | Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) (Institute for Christianity and Antiquity)
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Burgerbibliothek of Berne: Bern, CH

2006-05-01 to 2007-01-31 | Cataloguer (temporary) (Manuscript Department)
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University of Göttingen: Göttingen, DE

2004-10-01 to 2005-09-30 | Teaching Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) (Department of Classics)
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2001-04-01 to 2004-04-30 | Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) (Department of Classics)
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Ilia State University: Tbilisi, GE

2000-10-01 to 2000-12-31 | Visiting Lecturer for German as a foreign language (various)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Vatican Apostolic Library: Vatican City, VA

2003 | Diploma in Codicology and Greek Palaeography (Vatican School)
Qualification
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University of Göttingen: Göttingen, DE

2013 | PhD (Department of Classics)
Education
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2000 | Master (Department of Classics)
Education
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Professional activities (23)

University of Göttingen: Göttingen, DE

2011 | Christian-Gottlob Heyne Prize (best dissertation in the Humanities in the academic year 2010–2011) (Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen)
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2019-03-15 to 2019-03-16 | Conference Organizer (International Workshop: Gregory Akindynos’ Role in the Hesychast Controversy) (Institute for Historical Theology)
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Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Byzantinische Studien: Geneva, CH

2023-12-01 | Co-organizer (Informal Meeting: Byzanz in der Schweiz – Ein informelles Treffen zur Byzanzforschung in der Schweiz heute und in Zukunft) (University of Zurich, Department of Classics)
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Istituto Svizzero di Roma: Rome, IT

2003-03-20 | Conference Co-organizer (International Study Day: Giornata di studio di filologia classica)
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Istituto Svizzero di Roma: Rome, IT

2021-09-30 to 2021-10-01 | Conference Organizer (International Workshop: Searching for Unknown, Lost, and Forgotten Ancient Texts)
Service
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24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies: Venice and Padua, IT

2022-08-23 | Convener (Round Table: Bridging Time, Space, and Cultures: Ptolemy’s Geography in Byzantium)
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World Philology Union: Oslo, NO

2024 to present | Member
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Österreichische Byzantinische Gesellschaft: Vienna, AT

2022 to present | Member
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Bollettino dei Classici (peer reviewed journal): Rome, IT

2022 to present | Peer Reviewer
Service
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Studi di Storia Medievale e di Diplomatica (peer reviewed journal): Milan, IT

2020 to present | Member of the Scientific Committee
Service
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Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung Byzantinischer Studien: Münster, DE

2020 to present | Member
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Revue des Études Byzantines (peer reviewed journal): Paris, FR

2017 to present | Peer Reviewer
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Schweizerische Vereinigung für Altertumswissensschaft: Fribourg, CH

2012 to present | Member
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2011 to present | Research Associate (Center for Global Studies)
Invited position
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Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Byzantinische Studien: Geneva, CH

2011 to present | since 2023 Board Member
Membership
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Istituto Svizzero di Roma: Rome, IT

2011 to present | since 2023 Board Member (Associazione Membri e Amici dell’Istituto Svizzero di Roma)
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IRHT: Paris, FR

2009 to present | Member (Association des amis de l’IRHT)
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ProLitteris (Swiss Copyright Society for Literature and Visual Arts): Zurich, CH

2005 to present | Member
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Göttinger Freunde der Antiken Literatur: Göttingen, DE

2004 to present | Member
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25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies: Vienna, AT

2026-08-24 to 2026-08-29 | Convener (Round Table: Byzantine Prayer Traditions Beyond Byzantium: Manuscripts and Practices)
Service
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Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Byzantinische Studien: Geneva, CH

2025-05-08 to 2025-05-10 | Conference Co-organiser (First Swiss Conference in Byzantine Studies: Byzantium as a Hub in Time and Space)
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Berlin, DE

2012 to 2013 | Member of the Election Committee (Faculty of Theology)
Service
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Istituto Svizzero di Roma: Rome, IT

2003-02-01 to 2003-07-31 | Research Fellow
Invited position
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Funding (18)

Round Table at 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies

2022-08 to 2022-08 | Grant
Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Bern, CH)
Source: Self-asserted source
Renate Burri

Measuring the Heavens over Byzantium: An Anonymous Byzantine Treatise on the Astrolabe

2022-07 to 2022-08 | Salary award
Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC, US)
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In the Name of the Rose: Searching for Unknown, Lost, and Forgotten Greek Manuscripts and Texts

2020-02 to 2021-09 | Salary award
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
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Toronto-Rome Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies

2019-06 to 2019-07 | Grant
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (ON, ON, CA)
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Gregory Akindynos’ Role in the Hesychast Controversy

2019-03 to 2019-03 | Grant
Fontes-Stiftung (Bern, CH)
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Gregory Akindynos’ Role in the Hesychast Controversy

2019-03 to 2019-03 | Grant
Burgergemeinde Bern (Bern, CH)
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Gregory Akindynos’ Role in the Hesychast Controversy

2019-03 to 2019-03 | Grant
Fondation Johanna Dürmüller-Bol (Muri bei Bern, CH)
Source: Self-asserted source
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Akindynos und Palamas im Streit um die göttlichen Energien

2018-07 to 2019-03 | Salary award
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
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Byzantine Book Production in East and West after the Fall of Constantinople

2015-01 to 2015-06 | Salary award
Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence, IT)
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Paper at the 41st Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies

2014-10 to 2014-10 | Grant
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Bonn, DE)
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Byzantine Book Production in East and West after the Fall of Constantinople

2014-09 to 2014-12 | Salary award
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University (Istanbul, TR)
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Byzantinische Buchproduktion in Ost und West nach der Eroberung Konstantinopels

2012-10 to 2016-03 | Salary award
Gerda Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf, DE)
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Renate Burri

Die Darstellung der Erde durch Giusto de’ Menabuoi im Baptisterium von Padua und ihr Verhältnis zur Weltkarte des Ptolemaios

2010-09 to 2010-10 | Grant
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut (Florence, IT)
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Ayer MS 743: A ‚Lost’ Manuscript of Ptolemy’s Geography

2010-05 to 2010-06 | Grant
Newberry Library (Chicago, US)
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Ayer MS 743: A ‚Lost’ Manuscript of Ptolemy’s Geography

2010-05 to 2010-06 | Grant
Newberry Library (Chicago, US)
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Die griechischen Handschriften der Geographie des Ptolemaios. Eine Geschichte der Wiederentdeckung (PhD thesis)

2009-10 to 2009-12 | Grant
University of Göttingen (Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen) (Göttingen, DE)
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Die Wiederentdeckung der Geographie des Ptolemaios

2007-03 to 2009-08 | Salary award
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
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Die Wiederentdeckung der Geographie des Ptolemaios

2004-07 to 2006-06 | Grant
Janggen-Poehn Foundation (Saint Gallen, CH)
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Works (34)

Introduction

The Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy
2024 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783506794529
Part of ISBN: 978-3-657-79452-2
Contributors: Renate Burri; Katharina Heyden
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New Evidence on Gregory Akindynos’ Works and Their Manuscripts

The Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy
2024 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783506794529
Part of ISBN: 978-3-657-79452-2
Contributors: Renate Burri
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The Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy

Brill/Schöningh
2024 | Edited book | Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing - review & editing, Writing - original draft
Contributors: Renate Burri; Katharina Heyden
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The Voice of a ‘Real Woman’: Eulogia’s Correspondence Reconsidered

International Workshop “Character Construction in Byzantium”
2024-09-12 | Lecture
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Bibliography as complete as possible for Vaticanus graecus 177 (Ptolemy’s Geography)

academia.edu
2023 | Interactive resource
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Four Names for Sunday (from Codex Vaticanus graecus 2392)

The Apocryphal Sunday. History and Texts from Late Antiquity
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781506491073
Contributors: Renate Burri; Uta Heil
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Philostrats ,Briefe‘ – Einheit in der Vielfalt, Vielfalt in der Einheit?

Frühmittelalterliche Studien
2023 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1613-0812
Part of ISSN: 0071-9706
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Die byzantinische Kartenredaktion der Geographie des Ptolemaios und ihre Handschriften

Forschende Wege. Zu literarischen Phänomenen vom klassischen Athen bis Byzanz. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783515130813
Contributors: Renate Burri
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From Codex Planudeus to Codex Bessarioneus? Vaticanus graecus 177 in Perspective

Des cahiers à l’histoire de la culture à Byzance. Hommage à Paul Canart, codicologue (1927–2017)
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789042946811
Part of ISBN: 9789042946828
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Michele Apostolio e la produzione di manoscritti di contenuto geografico : il Parm. Pal. 9 nel suo contesto

Scripta
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Renate Burri
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SwissByz

2021-02-05 | Website
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Digital Synoptic Edition of the Two Versions of Palamas’ Third Letter to Akindynos

2020-09-01 | Website
Contributors: Renate Burri; Carmen Stark; Rafael Schwemmer
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Exhibition Review of: Jews, Christians and Muslims – Scientific Discourse in the Middle Ages 500–1500 (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin/Germany, Dec 9, 2017 - March 4, 2018)

Manuscripts on my Mind (News from the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University)
2018 | Newsletter article
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Review of: Nigel G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Second Edition (London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2018 | Book review
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Some Notes on the Tradition of the Diagrams (and Maps) in Ptolemy’s Geography

Claudio Ptolomeo, Geografía (Capítulos teóricos)
2018 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9786073000055
Contributors: Renate Burri
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The Textual Transmission of Palamas’ Epistula III to Akindynos: The Case of Monac. gr. 223

Studia Patristica
2017 | Journal article
Part of ISBN: 9789042935921
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Ayer MS 743: New Light on a Greek Manuscript of Ptolemy’s Geography in Chicago

Manuscripta
2016 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0025-2603
Part of ISSN: 2031-0226
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Review of: Duane W. Roller, Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2016-11-07 | Book review
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Captions as Indicators for the Relation among Manuscripts of Ptolemy’s Geography

Manuscripta
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Renate Burri
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The Geography of On the Cosmos

Cosmic Order and Divine Power. Pseudo-Aristotle, ‘On the Cosmos’
2014 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-16-152809-5
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Review of: Fabio Guidetti / Anna Santoni (eds), Antiche stelle a Bisanzio: il codice Vaticano greco 1087 (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2013)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2014-09-12 | Book review
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Review of: Andreas Kleineberg / Christian Marx / Dieter Lelgemann, Europa in der Geographie des Ptolemaios. Die Entschlüsselung des "Atlas der Oikumene": Zwischen Orkney, Gibraltar und den Dinariden (Darmstadt: WBG, 2012)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2014-01-19 | Book review
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Die ›Geographie‹ des Ptolemaios im Spiegel der griechischen Handschriften

De Gruyter
2013 | Book
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Renate Burri

Report of Conference: Adolf Deißmann – Ein (zu Unrecht) fast vergessener Theologe und Philologe. 26.–27.04.2013, Berlin

H/SOZ/KULT Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften
2013-10-10 | Report
Contributors: Renate Burri; Marc Bergermann; Jan Bobbe; Vera von der Osten-Sacken
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Review of: Richard J. A. Talbert, Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2012-04-14 | Book review
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Renate Burri

Dion von Prusa, Der Philosoph und sein Bild

Mohr Siebeck
2009 | Translation
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Renate Burri

The Rediscovery of Ptolemy’s Geography (End of the Thirteenth to End of the Fifteenth Century)

Imago mundi
2009 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0308-5694
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Übersicht über die griechischen Handschriften der ptolemäischen Geographie

Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie - Ergänzungsband
2009 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 3796525814
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Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie, Griechisch-Deutsch

Schwabe
2006 | Book
Contributors: Renate Burri; Alfred Stückelberger; Gerd Graßhoff; Florian Mittenhuber; Klaus Geus
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Ad limina II

Edizioni dell’Orso
2004 | Edited book | Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing, Writing - original draft
Contributors: Renate Burri; Aline Delacrétaz; Jacques Monnier; Marcello Nobili
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Zur Datierung und Identität des Aristainetos

Museum Helveticum
2004 | Journal article
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Die Wiederentdeckung der Geographie des Ptolemaios durch Planudes

Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption
2003 | Journal article
Part of ISBN: 978-3-88476-595-1
Contributors: Renate Burri
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Renate Burri

Die ‘neue’ Ptolemaios-Handschrift von Istanbul (Cod. Seragliensis GI 57): Vorläufige Erkenntnisse

Museum Helveticum
2003 | Journal article
Contributors: Renate Burri; Alfred Stückelberger; Florian Mittenhuber
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Renate Burri

Russlands neue Zweiklassengesellschaft

Schweizer Monatshefte für Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur
1997 | Magazine article
Contributors: Renate Burri; Jacqueline Conus
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