Emeritus Professor Anne Lill | |
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Born | Anne Laansoo 15 October 1946 |
Nationality | Estonian |
Occupation(s) | Classical scholar; Philologist |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Tartu; Leningrad State University |
Alma mater | University of Tartu |
Thesis | Võõrpäritoluga terminielemendid eesti meditsiiniterminoloogia kujunemisel 1869-1914 (1987) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University 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.
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]
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 . [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]
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]