Emeritus Professor Anne Lill
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.

Education

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]

Career

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]

Selected publications

• The Lexicon of Tragedy: Themes and Characters in Ancient Greek Theatre (Tartu, 2004)^[13]
• Man and the World in Greek Tragedy (Tartu, 2008)

Awards

• 2001 - Order of the White Star, Class V.^[14]
• 2013 - Aleksander Kurtna Award.^[15]

Personal life

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]

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