Anne Lill

Emeritus Professor
Anne Lill
Born
Anne Laansoo

15 October 1946
NationalityEstonian
Occupation(s)Classical scholar; Philologist
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Tartu; Leningrad State University
Alma materUniversity of Tartu
ThesisVõõrpäritoluga terminielemendid eesti meditsiiniterminoloogia kujunemisel 1869-1914 (1987)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Tartu

Anne Lill (née Laansoo; born 15 October 1946) is an Estonian classical philologist and translator. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tartu.

Education

Anne Laansoo was born on 15 October 1946.[1] She graduated from University of Tartu in 1970.[2] From 1976 to 1978 she was a postgraduate student at Leningrad State University.[2] In 1987 she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Tartu with research entitled: "The foreign elements in terms of medical terminology in shaping Estonian 1869-1914".[2] This work examined the issues around the transfer of the Latin and Ancient Greek prefix and suffix systems from classical to other languages.[2]

Career

Lill started working at Tartu State University in 1978.[2] She was first a lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages, then from 1989 to 1992 she was an associate professor.[2] In 1991, based on Lill's initiative, classical philology as a specialism was restored at the University of Tartu.[3] From 1992 to 2012 she was a Professor of Classical Philology; since 16 April 2012 Lill has been Professor Emeritus.[4]

Lill has supervised many students, including legal scholar Merike Ristikivi [Wikidata].[5] She has published widely and translated several classical authors, including: Aristophanes,[6] Euripides,[7] Aristotle,[8] Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis,[9] Apuleius.[10] She has published on Horace's Carpe Diem,[11] as well as the concept of the symposium in Latin and Greek literature.[12] She has translated German and Russian texts to Estonian, including those of Freud, Nietzsche and Stolovich.[1]

Selected publications

  • The Lexicon of Tragedy: Themes and Characters in Ancient Greek Theatre (Tartu, 2004)[13]
  • Man and the World in Greek Tragedy (Tartu, 2008)

Awards

Personal life

Anne Lill's father was noted violinist and guitarist Emil Laansoo. She had a previous relationship with writer, poet, translator, cultural critic and philosopher Jaan Kaplinski, with whom she has a son, composer Märt-Matis Lill, born in 1975.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Anne Lill". www.etis.ee. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Prof. dr. Anne Lill". humanitaarteadused.ut.ee (in Estonian). 2008-02-10. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  3. ^ "Tartu Ülikool (alates 1990)". humanitaarteadused.ut.ee (in Estonian). 2008-03-01. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  4. ^ "Anne Lill given the title of Professor Emerita". humanitaarteadused.ut.ee. 2012-07-05. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  5. ^ "Juridica International". www.juridicainternational.eu. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  6. ^ Lyistrate in "Anthology of Ancient Greek Literature", Tallinn: Varrak, 2006, pp. 206–261
  7. ^ Bakhandid in "Anthology of Ancient Greek Literature", Tallinn: Varrak, 2006, pp. 155–203
  8. ^ The Ethics of Nicomachus Tartu: Ilmamaa, 1996. 2., corrected and supplemented edition 2007
  9. ^ "NO.66 IPHIGENEIA IN AULIS".
  10. ^ Metamorphoses or the Golden Donkey Tallinn: Hortus Litterarum, 1994
  11. ^ Publishers, Estonian Academy (1997). Trames. Estonian Academy Publishers.
  12. ^ Publishers, Estonian Academy (1999). Trames. Estonian Academy Publishers.
  13. ^ "Tragöödialeksikon: teemad ja tegelased antiikkreeka teatris, Anne Lill, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2004 | vanaraamat.ee". www.vanaraamat.ee. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  14. ^ "Vabariigi President". www.president.ee. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  15. ^ "Aleksander Kurtna nimeline auhind - Tartu Linnaraamatukogu kirjandusveeb". www.luts.ee. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  16. ^ Veidemann, Rein (26 January 2011). "Jaan Kaplinski seotud kõne*". Postimees (in Estonian). Retrieved 4 August 2020.