German Byzantine historian (born 1947)
Ralph-Johannes Lilie (30 December 1947, Hamburg) is a German Byzantinist.
Life.
He graduated from Munich University in 1975 with a dissertation entitled 'The Byzantine Reaction to the Arab Invasions – Studies on the Transformation of Government Structures in the Byzantine States in the 7th and 8th Century' and habilitated in 1982–83 at the Byzantinisch-Neugriechischen Seminar of the Free University of Berlin, where from 1984 to 2005 he was extraordinary professor. Since 1992 he has been working on the Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PmbZ) project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His wife is the medievalist Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie.