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Ulrich Moennig (born November 3, 1961 in Wesel) is a German Byzantine and neo-graecist.

Ulrich Moennig graduated in 1981 at the Stiftsgymnasium Xanten and subsequently studied Classical Philology, Neogräzistik and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne, mainly with Hans Eideneier, Peter Schreiner, Peter Wülfing-von Martitz and Clemens Zintzen. In 1984 and 1985 he was a guest lecturer at the University of Crete. In 1992, 1994 and 2002 he returned as a guest lecturer. After the Magister Artium in 1987 (On the History of the Tradition of the Middle and Modern Greek Alexander novel), he spent two years studying in Athens, where he was supervised by Nikolaos Panajotakis and Alexis Politis.

From 1989 to 1991 he was a lecturer for the subject of Modern Greek at the Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies of the University of Mainz in Germersheim. In 1991, he received his doctorate in Cologne with his dissertation The Late Byzantine Review of the Alexanderroman to Dr. phil. and was a research assistant at Hans Eideneier until 1993. With him he supervised the project “Neograeca in Germania” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 1994 to 1995 he was a habilitation scholarship holder of the DFG. In 1995 he succeeded Eideneier as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg (until 2001). In 2002 he habilitated with a critical edition of the Alexanderroman under the title The Tale of Alexander and Semiramis. After a two-year stay at the International University of Cyprus in Nicosia, he was appointed full professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Hamburg in 2004.

Moennig focuses his courses on Byzantine and Modern Greek literature. His research interests are Narrativity in Byzantine Literature, the emergence of new genres in the transition from Byzantine to Modern Greek Literature (from the 14th to the 16th century) and Greek Studies in the early modern German space.

Writings
History of the Tradition of the Middle and Modern Greek Alexanderroman. Romiosini, Cologne 1987.
The Late Byzantine Review *ζ of the Alexanderroman. Dissertation. Cologne 1991. Romiosini, Cologne 1992, ISBN 9783923728954 (Neograeca Medii Aevi, VI).
with Hans Edeneier: Neograeca in Germania. Κέντρο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών, Athens 2000.
Θεωρία και πράξη των εκδώσεων της υστεροβυζαντινής αναγεννησιακής και μεταβυζαντινής δημώδους γραμματείας. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδώσεις Κρήτης, Heraklion 2001.
The Tale of Alexander and Semiramis. de Gruyter, Berlin 2004.
with David Holton, T. Lendari, P. Vejleskov (ed.): Copyists, Collectors, Redactors and Editors: Manuscripts and Editions of Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literature. Papers given at a Conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 23–26 May 2002, in honour of Hans Eideneier and Arnold van Gemert.