Renate Burri is currently a Lecturer for Greek and Latin at the 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). In 2013, she 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. Most recently she was a Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Byzantine Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Moreover, she has been awarded numerous fellowships, e.g. by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Harvard University.
Renate Burri is the author of the book Die ›Geographie‹ des Ptolemaios im Spiegel der griechischen Handschriften (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2013). Most recently, she co-edited (together with Katharina Heyden) the volume The Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy (Paderborn: Brill, 2024).
Research Interests:
Byzantine studies, manuscript studies, the history of sciences (especially pre-modern geography), church history (the Hesychast Controversy), Greek/Byzantine epistolography.
