Anne Lill

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]

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]

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

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

Anne Lill's father was noted violinist and guitarist Emil Lanssoo. 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]