Panagiotis A. Giannopoulos

Panagiotis Giannopoulos, emeritus professor of Byzantine History at the University of Louvain, was born on June 1, 1938, in the village of Laloukas, Argos, where he completed his primary education. 1957: He graduated from the seven-year Ecclesiastical School of Corinth. 1962: He received his Theology degree from the University of Athens. 1962-1964: He served his military service. 1964: He enrolled in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens. 1964-1965: He worked as a member of a research team at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, organizing the monastery's archives. 1966-1967: He attended a research program on Medieval Balkan History at the University of Belgrade as a scholarship recipient. 1967: He received a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the University of Louvain (Belgium), focusing on the Byzantine world. 1968: He obtained his degree from the Department of History and Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens. 1969: He received his postgraduate diploma in Historical Sciences from the University of Louvain. 1972: He defended his dissertation "La société profane dans l’empire byzantin des VIIe, VIIIe et IXe siècles" and was awarded a doctorate in historical sciences from the University of Louvain. 1972: He was elected as an associate professor at the University of Louvain. 1973: He obtained a degree in Archaeology and Art History (specializing in Byzantine numismatics) from the University of Louvain. 1973: He was appointed professor at the University of Louvain. 2005: He became an emeritus professor at the University of Louvain. At the University of Louvain, he taught Modern Greek language, Byzantine History, Byzantine Institutions, and Numismatics. From 1977 to 1984, he also taught Modern Greek language at the School of Translators and Interpreters at the University of Mons (Belgium). He has occasionally taught as a visiting professor at the University of Athens, the University of Crete, and the University of Granada in Spain. For several years, he taught Modern Greek language and literature at the Institut Libre Marie Haps in Brussels and Modern Greek terminology at the institutions of the European Union.