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Margalit Finkelberg (Маргарита Георгиевна Карпюк) was born on 1947 in Minsk, USSR, is an Israeli historian and linguist. Discover Margalit Finkelberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
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Born 1947, 1947
Birthday 1947
Birthplace Minsk, USSR
Nationality Belarus

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1947

Margalit Finkelberg (née Karpyuk; born 1947) (מרגלית פינקלברג) is an Israeli historian and linguist.

She is the professor emerita of Classics at Tel Aviv University.

Finkelberg was born in Minsk on March 8, 1947 and immigrated to Israel in 1975.

She received a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1987

Finkelberg began teaching in 1987 at the Hebrew University and from 1991 taught at Tel Aviv University.

1991

While there, she was the recipient of the 1991 Gildersleeve Prize from the Johns Hopkins University Press for the best article published in the American Journal of Philology.

1998

A few years later, while still teaching at Tel Aviv University, Finkelberg published The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece in 1998.

1999

From 1999 to 2000, Finkelberg studied as a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she began to craft her future book Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition.

2000

In the early 2000s, Finkelberg collaborated with Guy Stroumsa at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (now known as the Israel Institute for Advanced Study) to research "Mechanisms of Canon-Making in Ancient Societies."

She was also Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2000) and an International Visiting Research Scholar at the University of British Columbia (2014).

2001

In an article from 2001, Finkelberg claimed that there was a "high degree of correspondence between the phonological and morphological system of Minoan and that of Lycian" and proposed that "the language of Linear A is either the direct ancestor of Lycian or a closely related idiom."

2002

Beginning in 2002, Finkelberg headed the Department of Classics at Tel Aviv University until 2006.

2003

These efforts would later come into fruition in 2003, with their book Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World. Despite this, Finkelberg still wrote about linguistics.

2005

She became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies from 2011 to 2016.

In 2021, she was elected Vice President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

In 2005, Finkelberg became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

2006

That same year, she also published Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition. From 2006 to 2007, Finkelberg was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

While there, she received funding to study the impact of Homeric poems.

2011

In 2011, she was elected president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies and was selected to sit on the Committee for the Evaluation of Archaeology Study Programs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

The following year, Finkelberg edited the first Homer Encyclopedia, which was considered the first comprehensive reference work on the Greek poet Homer.

2012

She was also the 2012 Recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities.

2013

In 2013, Finkelberg sat on the Dan David Prize Review Committee for Classics, the Modern Legacy of the Ancient World.

2016

In 2016, Finkelberg stepped down as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies.

2017

She retired from teaching in 2017.

The following is a list of selected publications: