Helene Ahrweiler

Greek/French Byzantinist (1926-2026) · Greece · On the map · Writers · Died at 99

Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler was a Greek-French academic Byzantinologist. She was also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Greece.

Helene Ahrweiler is read about 31 times a day, in 26 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 3 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 143 days, one point a day.

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2026Died16 February 20262012Grand Cross of the National Order of MeritAward1994Commander of the National Order of MeritAward1984Silver Olympic OrderAward1926Born29 August 1926

People around Helene

Pierre Joliot Succeeded Helene as President of the Comité d'éthique du CNRS

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Awards

Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit2012

Commander of the National Order of Merit1994

Silver Olympic Order1984

Commander of the Legion of Honour

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms

Grand Officer of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

Honorary Doctor of Harvard University

Honorary Doctorate of Haifa University

Honorary doctor of the University of Fribourg

Fellow of the British Academy

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Greece

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Writers from Greece 6

Aggelos Sikelianos51.0 of 100

Dimitris Lyacos50.7 of 100 Michel Pablo51.2 of 100

Kostas Karyotakis50.3 of 100

Penelope Delta52.2 of 100

Christos Papadimitriou50.3 of 100