Athanasios Kambylis

Athanasios Kambylis ( Greek Αθανάσιος Καμπύλης , born January 9, 1928 in Trikala ) is a Greek Byzantinist , classical philologist and Neo-Graecist .

Athanasios Kambylis in 1960 at the University of Kiel with a thesis on the poet consecration and their symbolism doctorate and worked as a lecturer in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Hamburg . After his habilitation (1969), he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor in 1971. In 1976 he moved to the University of Athens as a professor and in 1978 to the Free University of Berlin , before returning to the University of Hamburg in 1979. Until his retirement (1993) he was full professor for Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology and at the same time chairman of the German Byzantine Working Group. Since 1981 Kambylis has been Vice President of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines , since 1983 a full member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences in Hamburg and a corresponding (since 1996 full) member of the Academy of Athens . The University of Thessaloniki awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2004. In 2006 Kambylis became a senior member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg , which had emerged from the Joachim Jungius Society.

Kambylis deals with Greek literature from ancient times to the present. His main research interests are the writings of Pindar , Michael Psellos and Eustathios of Thessalonike as well as the Symeon of the New Theologian .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar , 21st edition (2007), p. 1678.
• Ioannis Vassis, Günther S. Henrich , Diether R. Reinsch (eds.): Readings. Festschrift for Athanasios Kambylis on his 70th birthday . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1998, ISBN 3-11-015894-9 , online

Web links

• Literature by and about Athanasios Kambylis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kambylis, Athanasios .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .