author
Alexander Van Millingen
1840–1915
A careful guide to Byzantine Constantinople, remembered for turning the city’s churches and walls into vivid subjects of historical study. He spent decades teaching in Istanbul and wrote with the close attention of someone who knew the city firsthand.
3 Audiobooks
Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture
by Alexander Van Millingen, Walter S. George, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) Henderson, Ramsay Traquair
Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
by Alexander Van Millingen
Constantinople, painted by Warwick Goble, described by Alexander Van Millingen
by Alexander Van Millingen
About the author
Born in 1840, Alexander van Millingen was a scholar of Byzantine architecture and a long-serving professor of history at Robert College in Istanbul. He is best known for studies of Constantinople that brought together history, topography, and architecture in a clear, detailed way.
His best-known books include Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical Sites and Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture. These works helped preserve knowledge of monuments that later changed, disappeared, or were difficult for outsiders to study closely.
Van Millingen died in 1915. His writing still attracts readers interested in Istanbul, the Byzantine world, and the history of sacred and urban spaces.