George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies

The George Seferis professor of Modern Greek Studies is the representative of a professor at the Harvard University that the Modern Greek Studies is dedicated.

Modern Greek and Modern Greek Studies have been taught at Harvard University with long interruptions since 1828. The first teacher of the language was Alexander Negris , a veteran of the Greek War of Independence . He was followed by Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles , who, after positions at Hartford and Yale , was a tutor in Greek from 1842 and University Professor of Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek from 1860 until his death in 1883 , probably holding the first chair in neo- Greek studies in the western world , and Aristides Phoutrides (1887-1923).

In 1977 the chair, which had been orphaned for over 50 years , was re-established under the anglicised name of the 1963 Nobel Prize winner , Giorgos Seferis .

Individual evidence

↑ Margaret Alexiou : Introduction , in: Five Centuries of Books and manuscripts in Modern Greek: A Catalog of an Exhibition at the Houghton Library December 4, 1987 through February 17, 1988 . Cambridge: The Harvard College Library, 1990. 3-15, there 13. However, had Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison already for a short time before his death in 1805, a chair of Modern Greek at the University of Paris and at the Collège de France .

Web links

History of the Program of Modern Greek Studies, George Seferis Chair, Harvard University

[1] Margaret Alexiou : Introduction , in: Five Centuries of Books and manuscripts in Modern Greek: A Catalog of an Exhibition at the Houghton Library December 4, 1987 through February 17, 1988 . Cambridge: The Harvard College Library, 1990. 3-15, there 13. However, had Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison already for a short time before his death in 1805, a chair of Modern Greek at the University of Paris and at the Collège de France .