Byzantijns-Nieuwgrieks Seminarium
Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
(31- 20) 525-2986 (F)
Areas of Specialization
Cretan Renaissance literature
Historical linguistics
Modern Greek literature
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
Comments and Additional Information
Visiting Professor, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (Spring 1992)
Visiting Scholar / Associate, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (1996- )
Prof. Willem F. Bakker
Professor of Byzantinology and Modern Greek, Emeritus;
University of Amsterdam
Department of Modern Greek and Byzantinology
Degrees
Ph.D. 1966 University of Utrecht (Classics)
M.A. 1961 University of Utrecht (Classics)
Principal Publications
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.