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Renate Burri is currently a Lecturer for Greek and Latin at the Institute of the Ancient and Byzantine World (Department of Classics), University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
She studied Classics and Russian Philology at the Universities of Bern, St. Petersburg, and Khabarovsk (Far East of Russia), and received her PhD in Classics (Greek Philology) from Göttingen University with a dissertation on the Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy’s Geography (awarded with the Christian Gottlob Heyne Prize). She worked as a Research Associate both in Classics and Ancient Christianity at the Universities of Bern, Göttingen, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. She has been awarded numerous fellowships, e.g. by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Harvard University. Most recently she was a Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Byzantine Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Renate Burri is the author of the book Die ›Geographie‹ des Ptolemaios im Spiegel der griechischen Handschriften (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013). Her research interests include Byzantine studies, manuscript studies, the history of sciences (especially ancient geography), church history (the Hesychast Controversy), and Greek/Byzantine epistolography. She is currently working on a monograph on Byzantine manuscript production in East and West after the Fall of Constantinople and on the editio princeps of Gregory Akindynos’ Refutation of Palamas’ Third Letter to him.