Fotis A. Dimitrakopoulos

Fotis Dimitrakopoulos was born in Patras in 1949, to a father from Kalavryta and a mother from Kefalonia. He grew up in Athens, where he completed his schooling, and in 1971, he graduated with a degree in Philology from the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the School of Philosophy. He served in the ranks of the Greek Army (1972-74) as a reserve second lieutenant in the Cavalry-Armored Corps. In 1974, he was appointed as an assistant in the Chair of Byzantine Philology. In 1984, he received his doctorate from the same school and was appointed as a lecturer in Modern Greek Philology. In 1989, he was elected assistant professor of Post-Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology. In 1994, he was unanimously elected professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Munich, and in 2000, he became an associate professor of Byzantine Philology and Palaeography in the Department of Philology at the University of Athens. His work focuses on topics in Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, and Modern Greek Philology, palaeography, hagiography-hymnography, and publishing, spanning from the Byzantine era to Papadiamantis, Seferis, and the modern Greek literature of Cyprus. He is the president of the Society of Papadiamantian Studies.