Education

• 1974: Graduate
  Graduate school
  A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
  
   in Greek and French literature (Athens
  Athens
  Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
  
  )
• 1976: Graduate in Byzantine
  Byzantine literature
  Byzantine literature may be defined as the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders...
  
   and modern Greek
  Modern Greek
  Modern Greek refers to the varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic...
  
   literature (Athens)
• 1977: diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA - University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
  University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
  Pantheon-Sorbonne University or Paris 1 is a university in Paris, France. With eight hundred years of excellence to build on, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a descendant of the Sorbonne and the Faculty of Law and Economics of Paris, is one of the largest universities in France today...
  
  )
• 1982: Doctorate
  Doctorate
  A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
  
   in History (Paris I, Panthéon
  Panthéon, Paris
  The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens...
  
  -Sorbonne 1982), Diploma
  Diploma
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   in History and Byzantine Culture (Bari
  Bari
  Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
  
  )
• 1983: Specialist in Education and Vocational Guidance (Lyon
  Lyon
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   II)

Career

• 1975: Assistant French teacher
• 1980-1990 Language teacher in lower and upper secondary schools in Greece (1984-1990 in Germany)
• 1990-1996: Educational and vocational guidance counsellor Germany
• 1993-1994: Deputy educational coordinator for Western Europe (Greece)
• Teacher of modern Greek language and literature and Byzantine literature at the University of Bonn
  University of Bonn
  The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...
  
  
• 1996-1997: Lexicographic research (Bonn
  Bonn
  Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  
  , Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  )
• 1996-2003: Involved in compilation of Byzantine-Greek dictionary

Political

• Member of Stuttgart (1984-1990) and Bonn (1990-2004) New Democracy Movement
• 1998-2004: Representative of the Greek Confederation of Large Families in COFACE

Decorations

• 1994: Silver Cross of the Legion of Honour of Germany

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