Helene Ahrweiler

Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler FBA (French: [aʁvɛlɛʁ]; Greek: Ελένη Γλύκατζη-Αρβελέρ; born 29 August 1926) is a Greek-French academic Byzantinologist.

After working in the Center for Asia Minor Studies, she moved to Paris in 1953 to continue her studies in the École pratique des hautes études where she obtained her doctorates in History and Classics.

[1] In 1955, she started working as a researcher in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and on 7 November 1958, she married the French Army officer Jacques Ahrweiler.

[2] Throughout her academic career, she also became an Honorary Doctor of various universities in the world, including the ones of London, Belgrade, New York, Nouveau Brunswick, Lima, American University of Paris, Harvard and Haifa.

In 2007, she received the title of Honorary Doctor of the Media Studies Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.