Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature

The Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature is a chair in the Classics Department at King's College London. It was established in 1918 to serve as a focal point in the United Kingdom and beyond for the study of Greek history and culture from the end of antiquity to the present day.^[1]

The establishment of the Koraes Chair was championed by the likes of the Anglo-Hellenic League and Eleftherios Venizelos, then Prime Minister of the Hellenic Parliament and a close friend of King's College Principal Ronald Montagu Burrows.^[2]^[3] Burrows was himself a famous classical scholar and philhellene.^[4]

The Koraes Chair is named in honour of Adamantios Koraes, the founding father of the modern Greek nation state.

^ "The Koraes Chair". Centre for Hellenic Studies. King's College London. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
^ "A Celebration of 100 Years of the Koraes Chair". www.kcl.ac.uk.
^ "Burrows, Ronald Montagu (1867–1920), classical scholar and university principal". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37248. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "A controversy revisited: Arnold Toynbee, the Koraes Chair, and the Western question in Greece and Turkey". talks.ox.ac.uk.

[chair-1] "The Koraes Chair". Centre for Hellenic Studies. King's College London. Retrieved 14 October 2018.

[2] "A Celebration of 100 Years of the Koraes Chair". www.kcl.ac.uk.

[3] "Burrows, Ronald Montagu (1867–1920), classical scholar and university principal". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37248. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[4] "A controversy revisited: Arnold Toynbee, the Koraes Chair, and the Western question in Greece and Turkey". talks.ox.ac.uk.

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