Constantine Zuckerman

Constantin Zuckerman (; born 1957 ) is a French historian and Professor of Byzantine studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Biography Zuckerman is a professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, which is part of the PSL network in France. He previously served as Director and Deputy Director of the Centre for History and Civilization of Byzantium, and is currently the Chair of Institutions et diplomatie de l'Empire byzantin.

He completed his doctorate in 1994 under the direction of Gilbert Dagron on the topic of "Recherches sur le statut social des soldats sous le Bas-Empire et à l'époque protobyzantine."

Zuckerman is the author of numerous articles about the Byzantine Empire, the Goths, the Armenians, the Huns, the Turkic peoples, the Khazars, the Magyars and the early Rus, among other peoples. In "On the Date of the Khazars' Conversion to Judaism and the Chronology of the Kings of the Rus Oleg and Igor," Zuckerman used Khazar and Slavic documents (Khazar Correspondence, Schechter Letter and The Life of Cyril) to call into question the traditional dates for early Kievan Rus leaders. In the same article he asserted that the Khazars converted to Judaism in 861, during the visit of Saint Cyril.

Zuckerman is the editor of the Travaux et Mémoires annual volume, which was created by Paul Lemerle and continued by Gilbert Dagron.

Awards In 2005, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres awarded Zuckerman the Charles Diehl prize for his monograph, Du village à l’Empire: autour du registre fiscal d’Aphroditô (525/526).