The Minister of Economy and President of the Eurogroup, Kyriakos Pierarakis, published a post on the occasion of the passing of the eminent Byzantinist Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler, who died today at the age of 99.

In detail, Mr Pierarakis wrote:

“Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler was the most tangible proof of the power produced by dedication to knowledge. From Vyronas to the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and from there to the Sorbonne University, first as a professor and, within a few years, as the first woman Rector of that renowned university.

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Shunning all that was superfluous, emphasizing substance and insisting on attention to detail, she reached the highest academic peaks and became an equal interlocutor of all the personalities who shaped the course of Greece as well as of her second homeland, France.

We bid farewell with gratitude to the academic who gave meaning to the universal identity of Byzantium, while at the same time embodying a Greece that opens itself to Europe and the world with confidence in its own strengths.

I extend my sincere condolences to her family.”