Alexander Sideras

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Alexander Sideras Αλέξανδρος Σιδεράς (born November 18, 1935 in Kandila , Aetolia-Acarnania Prefecture ; † July 14, 2019 ) was a Greek-German classical philologist , Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist .

Life

Sideras did his military service in the Greek army from 1957 to 1958 and then studied classical philology , philosophy and linguistics at the University of Athens . After graduating from the University of Göttingen in 1963 he deepened his studies . In 1967 he received his doctorate with Karl Deichgräber and Will Richter with the dissertation Homerisms in the language of Aeschylus , which was published in 1971 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht under the title Aeschylus Homericus . In 1968 he was given a teaching position in Modern Greek Philology at the Department of Classical Philology, and in 1975 he was commissioned to set up a Byzantine and Modern Greek library. With his habilitation in 1984, he founded the subject of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Göttingen and represented it initially as an academic senior councilor, later as an adjunct professor. From 2001 to 2005 Sideras edited the journal Göttinger Contributions to Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology together with Brita Kotrasch ; In the accompanying series of monographs Göttingen Studies on Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology , a contribution was published (Andras Rhoby: Reminiscences of ancient sites in Middle and Late Byzantine literature , 2003). Since Prof. Sideras' retirement in the summer of 2006, Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies are no longer subjects of study at the University of Göttingen. A research center for Byzantine and modern Greek literature still exists. Modern Greek courses for beginners and advanced learners are still offered at the Classical Philology seminar.

Sideras dealt with Greek literature and language from antiquity through the Byzantine era to the present. He was married to the neo-Greekist Paraskevi Sidera-Lytra. Her son is the writer and translator Agis Sideras .

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2007 . Saur, Munich 2007. Volume 3, p. 3462.

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personal data
SURNAME Sideras, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-German classical philologist, Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Kandila
DATE OF DEATH 14th July 2019