Abstract:

Professor Elizabeth A. Zachariadou passed away, after a short illness, on December 26, 2018, aged 87. Elizabeth Zachariadou, from a family of Greek refugees from Cappadocia, studied at the University of Athens before moving in 1956 to London to pursue her doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, under the supervision of the prominent Ottomanist Paul Wittek; her thesis concerned a Greek chronicle of the Ottoman Sultans, which as she proved was in fact a translation of an Italian model. After a six-month sojourn in Istanbul, Zachariadou returned to Greece in 1960 and began working in the newly founded Center of Byzantine Studies of the Royal (now National) Foundation for Research, where she also met her future husband, the eminent Byzantinist Nikos Oikonomides. During this period, she discovered and studied the rich Ottoman archive of St. John monastery in Patmos, with which she was to work almost until the end of her life.

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