Dr. Habil. Konstantinos G. Nichoritis
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Dr. Habil. Konstantinos G. Nichoritis
retired Professor of Slavology at the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
He was born in Kallithea and grew up in Daphne in the area of the city of Thebes in Greece.
He is a graduate of the Athonite School of Mount Athos and of the Theological School of Sofia where he studied as a scholar of the Church of Greece.
His postgraduate and doctoral work at the University of Sofia and the Academy of Sciences in Sofia was centered on the subjects of (i) medieval Slavic language and literature, (ii) Slavic culture and its history, (iii) palaeography, and (iv) palaeo-slavology.
He was awarded the title of Dr. Habil. for his post-doctoral work on the Ottoman period in the Balkans at the University of Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria.
He has taught at the following universities:
U. of Macedonia; U. of West. Macedonia; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; U. of Thrace; Sofia Academy of Sciences; and the U. of Neofyt Rilsky - Blagoevgrad.
He has extensively published on various topics pertaining to History, Philology and Literature,
Theology and the Slavic Culture in general. He is also the author of several monographs.
Indicative Works (Titles first in the original language, followed by its English translation):
«H Αθωνίτικη λόγια παράδοση και η διάδοση των πηγών για τους αγίους Κύριλλο και Μεθόδιο» (Διατριβή), Εκδ. Ακαδημίας Επιστημών Σόφιας (1990); "The Learnt Tradition in Mt. Athos and the Dissemination of the Sources on Saints Cyril and Methodius" (Dissertation, Pub. Academy of Sciences Sofia, 1990).
«Το Άγιο Όρος και οι Βούλγαροι Νεομάρτυρες», (Μεταδιδακτορική Διατριβή, Εκδ. Ακαδημίας Επιστημών Σόφιας, 2001); "Mt. Athos and Bulgarian New Martyrs", (Postdoctoral Dissertation, Pub. Academy of Sciences of Sofia, 2001).
«Παλαιοσλαβική και εκκλησιαστική σλαβονική γλώσσα και γραμματική» (Θεσσαλονίκη, 2004); "Old Slavic and ecclesiastical Slavonic language and grammar" Thessaloniki, 2004.
“Σλαβωνική γλώσσα: Εκ της χρηστομαθείας της σλαβωνικής γλώσσης ερανισθείσης υπό Νεοφύτου Ιερομονάχου Ριλλιώτου, λεξικόν (1852)» (Θεσσαλονίκη, 2008); "Slavonic language: From the Anthology of Slavonic language compiled by Neophytos Hieromonachos Rilliotis, dictionary (1852)" Thessaloniki 2008.
«Οι Άγιοι Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος (Ο πνευματικός βίος και ο πολιτισμός των Σλάβων)», εκδ. Μπαρμπουνάκης Χ., Θεσσαλονίκη, 2013; "Saints Cyril and Methodius (The spiritual life and culture of the Slavs)", ed. Barbounakis Ch.,Thessaloniki, 2013.
«Οι επιδράσεις της πνευματικές παράδοσης του Αγίου Όρους στον βίο και τον πολιτισμό των Σλάβων», εκδ. Μπαρμπουνάκης Χ., Θεσσαλονίκη, 2013; "The impact of the spiritual tradition of the Mount Athos on the life and culture of the Slavs", ed. Barbounakis H., Thessaloniki, 2013.
«Παγανιστικές λατρείες του σλαβικού κόσμου». εκδ. Μπαρμπουνάκης Χ., 2013; "Pagan cults in the Slavic world". Barbounakis H., 2013.
«Θέματα Ιστορίας και Πολιτισμού των Σλαβικών Λαών». Εκδ. Ostracon, Θεσσαλονίκη
2015; "Topics in the History and Culture of the Slavic Peoples". Ostracon Publishers, Thessaloniki, 2015.«Ρωσία και Βαλκανικοί Λαοί (18 ος -19 ος αι.) Θεσσαλονίκη 2019; "Russia and the Balkan Peoples (18th-19th century), Thessaloniki 2019.
Konstantine Nichoritis is also a member of the editorial board of the following journals:
(i) Konstantine's Letters of the Constantinian School of Fine Arts of the University of Nitra - Slovakia;
(ii) Proglas, issued by the Department of philology, University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria;
(iii) Journal of the Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria;
(iv) Fragmenta Hellenoslavica, the electronic journal of the Association of Greek Slavologists where he is also a member of the Board of Directors.
He has served as Deputy Chairman of the Department of Balkan Studies of the University of Western Macedonia; he has also served as head of the graduate program "Studies in the culture and the languages of the Southern-Eastern Countries of Europe" of the same department (2009-2014).
He has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Sofia; recently, on the 14th of March 2023, he was elected as a Foreign Member in the Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria.