Anne Lill (née Laansoo; born 15 October 1946) is an Estonian classical philologist and translator. She is Professor Emeritus at the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

Education

Anne Laansoo was born on 15 October 1946. She graduated from

in 1970. From 1976 to 1978 she was a postgraduate student at

Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

. 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". This work examined the issues around the transfer of the Latin and Ancient Greek prefix and suffix systems from classical to other languages.

Career

Lill started working at Tartu State University in 1978. She was first a lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages, then from 1989 to 1992 she was an associate professor. In 1991, based on Lill's initiative, classical philology as a specialism was restored at the University of Tartu. From 1992 to 2012 she was a Professor of Classical Philology; since 16 April 2012 Lill has been Professor Emeritus. Lill has supervised many students, including legal scholar . She has published widely and translated several classical authors, including:

Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his fo ...

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars ...

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece, Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatet ...

Iphigenia in Aulis ''Iphigenia in Aulis'' or ''Iphigenia at Aulis'' ( grc, Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι, Īphigéneia en Aulídi; variously translated, including the Latin ''Iphigenia in Aulide'') is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripid ...

Apuleius Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern- ...

. She has published on Horace's ''Carpe Diem,'' as well as the concept of the symposium in Latin and Greek literature. She has translated German and Russian texts to Estonian, including those of

Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ca ...

and Stolovich.

Selected publications

* ''The Lexicon of Tragedy: Themes and Characters in Ancient Greek Theatre'' (Tartu, 2004) * ''Man and the World in Greek Tragedy'' (Tartu, 2008)

Awards

* 2001 -

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Balti ...

, Class V. * 2013 - Aleksander Kurtna Award.

Personal life

Anne Lill's father was noted violinist and guitarist Emil Lanssoo. She had a previous relationship with writer, poet, translator, cultural critic and philosopher

Jaan Kaplinski Jaan Kaplinski (22 January 1941 – 8 August 2021 ) was an Estonian poet, philosopher, politician, and culture critic, known for his focus on global issues and support for left-wing/ liberal thinking. He was influenced by Eastern philosophical ...

, with whom she has a son, composer

Märt-Matis Lill Märt-Matis Lill (born 6 November 1975) is an Estonian composer. Märt-Matis Lill was born in Tartu, the son of writer, translator, cultural critic and philosopher Jaan Kaplinski and classical philologist and translator Anne Lill. Guitarist and v ...

, born in 1975.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lill, Anne 1946 births Living people Estonian classical scholars Academic staff of the University of Tartu University of Tartu alumni Estonian philologists Classical philologists Estonian translators Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class Translators of Ancient Greek texts Translators from Latin Translators from German Translators from Russian Translators of Friedrich Nietzsche Translators to Estonian