Konstantinos A. Dimadis Explained

Konstantinos A. Dimadis (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κωνσταντίνος Α. Δημάδης; born November 1940) is a Greek scholar and emeritus professor in Modern Greek studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Education and career

After studying at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 1964 he became a research associate at the 15th Ephorate of Classical Antiquities of East Macedonia and Thrace. His research enabled him to localize the administrative and religious centre of the city of Abdera in classical times and to discover the site of its Ancient theatre (1965). In the academic year 1967/1968 Dimadis was appointed research associate at the Department of Linguistics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (collection and preparation of material for the Lexicon of Archaisms in Modern Greek Dialects, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1974). From 1968 to 1973 he was a member of the editorial staff for the Dictionary of Medieval Greek Vernacular Literature, 1100-1669 by Emmanuel Kriaras, from 1973 to 1980 he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki. From 1978 to 1980, Dimadis also held a teaching position for Modern Greek at the department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. This was followed by a lectureship at the department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam from 1980 to 1992, where he received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on liberal writers during the dictatorship of Metaxas and the occupation (1936-1944).

In 1992 Dimadis was appointed professor of Modern Greek language and literature at the University of Groningen as successor to Willem J. Aerts. From 1996 until his retirement in 2007, he was professor of Modern Greek studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2001 he has also been an honorary professor at the Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the Tbilisi State University, Georgia.

Since 1985 Dimadis is the director of the International Summer School for Greek Language, History and Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece. Dimadis served as chairman of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies from 2002 to 2018 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest in 2010.

Academic interests

Dimadis’ works are characterized by their diversity: the spectrum ranges from archaeological works, such as the ancient history of theatre, and modern Greek lexicography and Balkan Studies to the study of modern Greek literature, especially the prose fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. His interests focus on issues of editing and reception, and, from a literary-sociological perspective, on the interplay between literature and contemporary history, especially dictatorial regimes.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Δημάδης, Κωνσταντίνος Α. Δικτατορία, πόλεμος και πεζογραφία, 1936-1944: Γιώργος Θεοτοκάς, Μ. Καραγάτσης, Στράτης Μυριβήλης, Θανάσης Πετσάλης-Διομήδης, Παντελής Πρεβελάκης, Άγγελος Τερζάκης. 1991. Γνώση. 9789602354247. el.

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