Elsie Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou

Elsie Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou , born Tornaritou, Greek Έλση Μαθιοπούλου-Τορναρίτου (born June 9, 1928 in Limassol ) is a Greek neo -Graecist .

Elsie Tornaritou studied Classical Philology , Archeology and History at the University of Athens until 1953 and emigrated to Germany in the 1950s. There she married the journalist Basil Petros Mathiopoulos . In 1956 their daughter Margarita Mathiopoulos was born.

Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou received his PhD in Classical Archeology from the University of Bonn in 1961. phil. PhD . In 1968 she was employed at the University of Bonn as a research assistant for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies. In 1972 she received a civil service position as an academic councilor (from 1995 senior councilor). Until 2006 she gave courses in Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Bonn. In 1996 she was appointed honorary professor. At the same time she gave lectures at the University of Cologne (since 1995) and at the University of Erlangen (1998–2000).

From 1990 to 2000 she participated in the graduate school The Renaissance in Italy and its European Reception in collaboration with universities in Southeast Europe and Cyprus . Since 2006 she has been a member of the Center for the Classical Tradition at the University of Bonn. In 2007 the Greek government awarded her the Order of Honor in the rank of commander.

Fonts (selection)

• On the typology of the goddess Athena in the fifth century BC. Dissertation Bonn 1961.
• Late Renaissance poetry in Cyprus. In: Folia Neohellenica. Zeitschrift für Neogräzistik 7, 1985-86, pp. 63-159.
• L. Giustiniani's Epistola to Helena Palaelogin. A contribution to the Veneto-Cypriot cultural dialogue. In: ΕΥΨΥΧΙΑ. Mélanges offerts à Hélène Ahrweiler . Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne 1998, pp. 520-539, (online) at Google Books .
• To shape style and terminology in the work of Dionysios Solomos. In: Folia Neohellenica. Zeitschrift für Neogräzistik 9, 1999, pp. 7-66.

Web links

• University of Bonn: Personal Page
• University of Cyprus: ΤΙΜΗΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΔ∆ΗΛΩΩΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ Δ∆ΙΑΚΕΚΡΙΜΕΝΗ ΝΕΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΡΙΑ ΕΛΣΗ ΜΑΘΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ-ΤΟΡΝΑΡΙΤΟΥ (PDF) - (contains photographs)
• University Library of Cyprus: Έλση Μαθιοπούλου-Τορναρίτου (donation of 1480 titles to the University Library of Cyprus)
• Biblio-Uellner: Bibliographical references in: Bibliography of non-independent publications on modern Greek literature (1927–2001)