Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature
The Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature is a chair in the Classics Department at King's College London. It was established in 1918 to serve as a focal point in the United Kingdom and beyond for the study of Greek history and culture from the end of antiquity to the present day.[1]
The establishment of the Koraes Chair was championed by the likes of the Anglo-Hellenic League and Eleftherios Venizelos, then Prime Minister of the Hellenic Parliament and a close friend of King's College Principal Ronald Montagu Burrows.[2][3] Burrows was himself a famous classical scholar and philhellene.[4]
The Koraes Chair is named in honour of Adamantios Koraes, the founding father of the modern Greek nation state.
List of Koraes Professor
Since its creation, there have been seven holders of the chair:[1]
- 1919–1924: Arnold J. Toynbee
- 1926–1943: F. H. Marshall
- 1946–1960: Romilly Jenkins
- 1963–1968: Cyril Mango
- 1970–1988: Donald Nicol
- 1988–2018: Roderick Beaton
- 2018–present: Gonda Van Steen[5]
References
- ^ a b "The Koraes Chair". Centre for Hellenic Studies. King's College London. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "A Celebration of 100 Years of the Koraes Chair". www.kcl.ac.uk.
- ^ "Burrows, Ronald Montagu (1867–1920), classical scholar and university principal". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37248. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "A controversy revisited: Arnold Toynbee, the Koraes Chair, and the Western question in Greece and Turkey". talks.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "Professor Gonda Van Steen announced as next Koraes Chair". King's College London. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
External links
- The Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King's College London