Dr. Jadran Ferluga was born on February 12th 1920. in Trieste. After the war he studied at the Sorbonne University and in Belgrade, wherw he graduated in 1949. He was a collaborator of the prominent expert for Byzantine studies Georgij Ostrogorski in the Seminary for Byzantine Studies in Belgrade. In the years 1957-1970, he held lectures at the Belgrade Faculty of Arts, then he took over the chair of Byzantine Studies in Münster, where he held his lectures until his retirement in 1989. At the same time he was a director of the Seminary for Byzantine Studies in this town. He is one of the leading European experts in Byzantine studies.