Michalis Setatos' website

On March 2, 2018 the Thessaloniki District Court published Michalis Setatos’s last will and testament, by virtue of which the Institute for Modern Greek Studies becomes beneficiary. It reads as follows:

Panorama, 23-5-2005

My last will

1. I bequeath the real property that I jointly own with my sister, Eleni, to Manolis Triandaphyllidis Foundation, to which it will pass after the death of my sister, whom I urge to do the same.
2. From my movable property, I bequeath my books to the Institute for Modern Greek Studies (Μ. Triandaphyllidis Foundation), except for the English and French literary texts, as well as such Greek literary texts my sister may wish to keep as long as she lives. The rest of my books, i.e. linguistics, semiotics, cultural anthropology, literary theory, philosophy, sociology, psychology, epistemology and theory of science, religious studies, history and theory of history, will pass to Μ. Triandaphyllidis Foundation, as will literary and non-literary texts in various languages: Ancient Greek and Latin, old and modern Indo-European languages, Semitic languages, Ural–Altaic languages, Chinese and Japanese, etc., having been catalogued and stamped with my name before being transferred to Μ. Triandaphyllidis Foundation. The same holds for such journals my sister may not wish to keep. Similarly, for travel books, arts books, cinema books, sci-fi books.
3. Μ. Triandaphyllidis Foundation shall undertake to publish my unpublished studies and/or my complete works (notes in various areas, etc.) at their discretion.
4. Μ. Triandaphyllidis Foundation shall undertake to publish classical linguistics and semiotics works (e.g. by Sapir, Jespersen, Peirce, etc.) and well-known manuals (e.g. Bolinger, etc.) in Modern Greek translation.

[Μ. Setatos]

The magnitude and significance of this touching generosity, this giving spirit of Michalis Setatos and his sister Eleni, cannot possibly be assessed today. This gesture of theirs is fairly comparable to the respective one by Manolis Triandaphyllidis himself, who established the Institute for Modern Greek Studies in 1959 with his will. Acts of this kind should only be treated with absolute awe and with the highest respect, since they reveal a selflessness interwoven with a simplicity and a naturalness that tell a lot about the quality of the persons who make such decisions. One thing is certain: through this donation as a whole Michalis Setatos and Eleni Setatou become benefactors of our Institute, and at the same time benefactors of the Faculty of Philosophy and our University, an inextricable part of which is M. Triandaphyllidis Foundation.