Sofia Kotzabassi

Sofia Kotzabassi ( Greek Σοφία Κοτζάμπαση , born March 5, 1962 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek Byzantine scholar and Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Thessaloniki .

life and work

Sofia Kotzabassi studied Byzantine Studies, Classical and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Thessaloniki from 1979 to 1985, after which she continued her studies at the Free University of Berlin and received her doctorate there in 1988. From 1989 to 1992 she taught as a lecturer for Byzantine Philology at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki, since then she has worked there as a professor. In the winter semester 1995–1996 she was professor for Byzantine Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Sofia Kotzabassi's fields of work are Byzantine rhetoric and epistolography , philosophy ( Johannes Italos , Leon Magentinos ), historiography and prosopography , as well as Greek palaeography and codicology .

Fonts (selection)

• The handwritten tradition of the rhetorical and hagiographical works of Gregory of Cyprus (Serta Graeca. Contributions to the study of Greek texts, vol. 6), Wiesbaden 1998. ISBN 3-89500-064-7 .
• Byzantine commentators on the Aristotelian topic. Johannes Italos and Leon Magentinos (Byzantine Research Society, 17), Thessaloniki: Vanias 1999. ISBN 978-960-288-062-3 .
• Βυζαντινά χειρόγραφα από τα μοναστήρια της Μικράς Ασίας , Athens: Ephesos, 2004. ISBN 960-8326-18-4 .
• The hagiographic dossier of Saint Theodosia of Constantinople. Introduction - Edition - Commentary (Byzantine Archive 21), Berlin - New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021985-2 .
• with Giannis Mavromatis (Ed.): Realia Byzantina. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, (excerpts online) . - (Festschrift for Apostolos Karpozilos )
• Greek Manuscripts at Princeton. A Descriptive Catalog (in collaboration with Nancy Patterson Ševčenko and Don Skemer). Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies and Department of Art History, 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-14387-3 .

Web links

• Kotzabassi, Sofia .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Homepage at the University of Thessaloniki with a list of publications
• Essays by Sofia Kotzabassi at academia.edu