MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Prof. Willem F. Bakker

Professor of Byzantinology and Modern Greek, Emeritus

University of Amsterdam

Department of Modern Greek and Byzantinology

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1966 University of Utrecht (Classics)

M.A. 1961 University of Utrecht (Classics)

II. Areas of Specialization

Cretan Renaissance literature

Historical linguistics

Modern Greek literature

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Survey of Modern Greek literature

History of the Greek language

Linguistics

Erotokritos

Seminar on Early Modern Greek literature

Literary translation

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

E Thysia tou Avraam. Kritike ekdose. With A.F. van Gemert. Herakleion, Crete: Panepistemiakes Ekdoseis Kretes, 1995.

Istoria tou Velisariou. Kritike ekdose ton tessaron diaskevon me eisagoge, scholia kai glossario. With A.F. van Gemert. [Vyzantine kai Neoellenike Vivliotheke, 6.] Athens: Morphotiko Idryma Ethnikes Trapezes, 1988.

Manoles Varouchas. Notariakes praxeis, Monasteraki Amariou (1597-1613). With A.F. van Gemert. Rethymno: Panepistemio Kretes, 1987.

The Sacrifice of Abraham: the Cretan Biblical Drama E Thysia tou Avraam and Western European and Greek Tradition. Centre for Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, 1978.

Pronomen Abundans and Pronomen Coniunctum: A Contribution to the History of the Resumptive Pronoun within the Relative Clause in Greek. [Verh. d. Kon. Akademie v. Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, N.R. 82.] Amsterdam, 1974.

The Greek Imperative: An Investigation into the Aspectual Differences between the Present and Aorist Imperatives in Greek Prayer from Homer up to the Present Day. Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1966.

V. Office Address

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Byzantijns-Nieuwgrieks Seminarium

Spuistraat 210

1012 VT Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(31- 20) 525-2989

(31- 20) 525-2986 (F)

Electronic Address

c/o: [email protected]

VI. Home Address

14 Concord Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(617) 876-5521

VII. Comments and Additional Information

Visiting Professor, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (Spring 1992)

Visiting Scholar / Associate, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1996- )

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