Walter Kaegi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Walter Kaegi

American historian

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1937

Place of Birth: New Albany, Indiana, United States

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Walter Emil Kaegi (born 1937) is a historian and scholar of Byzantine History, professor of history at the University of Chicago, and a Voting Member of The Oriental Institute.
He received his B.A.
from Haverford College in 1959 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1965.
He is known for his researches on the period from the fourth through eleventh centuries with a special interest in the advance of Islam, interactions with religion and thought, and military subjects.
Kaegi is also distinguished for analyzing the Late Roman period in European and Mediterranean context, and has written extensively on Roman, Vandal, Byzantine and Muslim occupation of North Africa.
He is known also as the co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference and the editor of the journal Byzantinische Forschungen.