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List Of Members Of The Academy Of Athens
This is a list of the members of the Academy of Athens, the national academy of Greece. List ; 1926 (Founding Members) * * * * * * Georgios Remoundos (1878–1928) * * * * * * * * * * Georgios Hatzidakis (1843–1941) * * Panagiotis Kavvadias * Christos Tsountas (1857 – 1934) * Kostis Palamas (1859 –1943) * Georgios Jakobides (1853 –1932) * * Konstantinos Amantos * Georgios Drossinis (1859 – 1951) * * * Antonios Keramopoulos (1870 – 1960) * * * * Anastasios Orlandos (1887 – 1979) * Archbishop Chrysostomos I of Athens (1868 – 1938) * Konstantinos Raktivan (1865 – 1935) * * Nikolaos Politis (1872 –1942) * * * * Constantin Carathéodory (first elected member) (1873 –1950) ; 1927 * Georgios Streit * ; 1928 * * * Alexandros Mazarakis-Ainian ; 1929 * * * * * * * ; 1931 * Gregorios Xenopoulos * * * ; 1932 * ; 1933 * * * * ; 1934 * ; 1935 * ; 1936 * * Konstantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Athens (modern)
The Academy of Athens ( el, Ακαδημία Αθηνών, ''Akadimía Athinón'') is Greece's national academy, and the highest research establishment in the country. It was established in 1926, with its founding principle traces back to the historical Academy of Plato, and operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. The Academy's main building is one of the major landmarks of Athens. History and structure The organization of the Academy of Athens, whose title hearkens back to the ancient Academy of Plato, was first established on 18 March 1926, and its charter was ratified by the law 4398/1929. This charter, with subsequent amendments, is still valid and governs the Academy's affairs. According to it, the Academy is divided into three Orders: Natural Sciences, Letters and Arts, Moral and Political Sciences. Research centres The Academy today, maintains 14 research centres, 5 research offices and the "Ioannis Sykoutris" library. In 2002, the Foundation f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgios Streit
Georgios Streit ( el, Γεώργιος Στρέιτ; 1868–1948) was a Greek lawyer and professor. A legal advisor to King Constantine I, Streit was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1913–14, on the eve of World War I. Later, he served as a Judge at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague after 1929. Early life and family Born in Patras, Greece in 1868, Streit was the son of law professor Stefanos Streit and his wife Victoria Lontou. He was the third generation born in Greece of a German family. He studied law in Athens and Germany and was later on the law faculty of University of Leipzig. In 1898, Streit married Julia Karatheodori. Law professor In 1893, Streit was appointed to the faculty of International Law at the University of Athens. During this period, Streit was active in supporting the Greek population in Macedonia, which was still under the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire. He also wrote a number of seminal treatises on International Law in Greek. Servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionysios Kokkinos
Dionysios Kokkinos (Greek: Διονύσιος Κόκκινος; 1884–1967) was a Greek historian, journalist, academic and writer. Early life and education Kokkinos was born in Pyrgos in Elis, Greece. His father, Antonios Kokkinos, was a hagiographer, born in Amorgos, 1864. His mother, Angeliki Yiannopoulou, was born in Agoulinitsa (today Epitalio) to a family who fought in the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Although Kokkinos briefly studied medicine at the University of Athens, he ended up abandoning this path in favor of history, journalism, and literature. During his college career he published the socialist newspaper '' Mellon'' (or "Future"). When Greece entered the Balkan wars, he joined as a soldier, and a year later published 4 volumes on his impressions of it. Career During his career, Kokkinos worked for the newspapers '' Akropolis'', '' Kathimerini'', ''Patrida'', ''Proteifousa,'' ''Hellenic, Proia,'' and '' Ethnos,'' fulfilling at times the roles of chron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chariton Charitonidis
Chariton Charitonidis ( el, Χαρίτων Χαριτωνίδης; born 1878 Makri, Asia Minor Fethiye.html" ;"title="oday Fethiye">oday Fethiye, Turkey] – died 8 or 9 May 1954, Athens, Greece) was a Greek Classics, classical philologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and List of members of the Academy of Athens, member of the Academy of Athens. Life Chariton Charitonidis was born in Fethiye, Makri, Asia Minor. He was educated at the Pythagorian Gymnasium of Samos, but graduated from the 3rd Gymnasium of Athens. He then studied philology at the University of Athens. There he was associated with the circle of Professor Konstantinos S. Kontos. He received his degree in 1902. In 1909 he was awarded a Ph.D. of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens. In 1907 he was appointed to Arsakeio where he remained until 1926. In 1926 Chariton Charitonidis became professor at the University of Thessaloniki. He was the first to teach Ancient Greek a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panagiotis Poulitsas
Panagiotis Poulitsas (Greek: Παναγιώτης Πουλίτσας) was a Greek judge and archeologist who briefly served as interim Prime Minister of Greece from 4 April 1946 to 18 April 1946. He was born in Geraki, Laconia on 9 September 1881. As President of the Council of State, he took the premiership of an interim government from 4 to 18 April 1946 after the troubled 31 March 1946 elections, which were simultaneous with the reigniting of the Greek Civil War. In 1947, he became a member of the Archaeological Society of Athens and of the Academy of Athens, of which he was elected president in 1954. He died in Athens on 16 January 1968 at the age of 86. He was the maternal grandfather of the famous authorist and playboy Taki Theodoracopulos Panagiotis "Taki" Theodoracopulos (; el, text=Παναγιώτης "Τάκης" Θεοδωρακόπουλος ; born 11 August 1936) is a Greek journalist and writer. He has lived in New York City, London, and Gstaad. Early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manolis Kalomiris
Manolis Kalomiris ( el, Μανώλης Καλομοίρης; December 14, 1883, Smyrna – April 3, 1962, Athens) was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music. Biography Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna. After working for a few years as a piano teacher in Kharkov (then Russia and now Ukraine) he settled in Athens. An admirer of Richard Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Kostis Palamas, and Nikos Kazantzakis, he set himself the life goal of establishing a Greek "national school" of music, based on the ideas of the Russian national composers, on western musical achievements and on modern Greek folk music, poetry and myth. He thus founded in 1919 the Hellenic Conservatory and in 1926 the National Conservatoire. At the same time, he served as the General Supervisor of military bands in the country. He wrote three symphonies and five operas, one piano concerto and one violin concertin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epameinondas Thomopoulos
Epameinondas Thomopoulos (Greek: Επαμεινώνδας Θωμόπουλος, 1878 - January 4, 1976) was a Greek artist who attended the academy and the first Greek impressionist. He studied drawing in Italy. It was his years as professor of the arts school and for two years at a school from 1948 until 1949. In 1949, he was elected member of the Athens Academy and in 1962, he was appointed president of the same member. Most of his works and drawings are related with nature. Many of these are preserved in the Patras city hall and the National Gallery of Greece. In 1996, the city of Patras awarded a large spot in the National Gallery of the city. References *T. Iliadou-Maniaki ''Epameinondas Thomopoulos'' Achaikes Ekdoseis, Patras *''The first version of the article is translated and is based from the article Article often refers to: * Article (grammar), a grammatical element used to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness * Article (publishing), a piece of nonfiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregorios Papamichael
Gregorios Papamichael ( el, Γρηγόριος Παπαμιχαήλ) (1875–1956) was a theologian of the Orthodox Church of Greece and a renowned professor at the Theology School of the University of Athens (1918-1920, and 1923-1939). He examined diligently various cultural aspects of church life and is jointly credited, together with his close friend Archbishop Chrysostomos I (Papadopoulos) of Athens (1923-1938), for establishing the two basic academic journals of Neohellenic theology: ''Theologia'' and ''Ekklesia.''Panagiotes K. Christou. Neohellenic Theology at the Crossroads'' The Greek Orthodox Theological Review. 28, n. 1, Spring 1983, p. 39-54. In addition, he was responsible for the modern rediscovery of two almost forgotten great personalities of Orthodoxy, namely Gregorios Palamas and Maximos (Trivolis) the Greek. Biography Early life and education Gregorios Papamichael was born in the village of Íppeios on Lesbos in 1875. Δημήτριος Μπαλάνος (Ε ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandros Diomidis
Alexandros Diomedes () (3 January 1875 – 11 November 1950) was a governor of the Central Bank of Greece who became Prime Minister of Greece upon the death of Themistoklis Sophoulis. Diomedes was born in Athens, Greece to an Arvanite family from Spetses on 3 January 1875. His grandfather was former Prime Minister Diomidis Kiriakos. He studied law and economics in Weimar and Paris and earned a doctorate from the University of Berlin. In 1905, he became a professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He was a member of the Athens Academy. Diomedes was appointed prefect ("nomarch") of the Attica and Boeotia Prefecture in 1909. In 1910, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament under the banner of the Liberal Party. From 1912 to 1915 and again in 1922 he served as Minister for Finance. Diomedes became Governor of the National Bank of Greece in 1923 and Governor of the Bank of Greece in 1928. Diomedes became Prime Minister upon the death of Sophoulis. It was duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archbishop Chrysanthus Of Athens
Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens ( el, Αρχιεπίσκοπος Χρύσανθος; 1881 – 28 September 1949), born Charilaos Filippidis (), was the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece between 1938 and 1941. He was born in 1881 in Gratini, Thrace, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1903 he became a deacon and began his service in the Metropolis of Trebizond (modern day Trabzon) as a teacher at the Secondary School of the city, where he taught religious classes. He studied theology at the school of Halki then transferred to Lausanne in Switzerland and then to Leipzig in Germany. In 1913 he became the Metropolitan of Trebizond. The events of the First World War greatly impacted his life. In April 1916 – just ahead of the Russian invasion – he was handed control of the city by the local Ottoman administration. The Russians kept him as governor, even though he helped the local Turkish population return to the city and re-establish their institutions – to their dismay. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylianos Lykoudis
Stylianos Lykoudis ( el, Στυλιανός Λυκούδης, 1878-1958) was a Royal Hellenic Navy rear admiral, best known for his long service as head of the Navy's Lighthouse Service (Υπηρεσία Φάρων). He was also a scholar and historian, becoming a member of the Academy of Athens. Life He was born in Ermoupolis, Syros on 23 March 1878, the son of . At the age of 13 he entered the Navy Academy, graduating in 1895 as an Ensign. At the time he was the youngest officer of the Royal Hellenic Navy. As a young officer, he served on the ironclad battleships '' Hydra'', '' Spetsai'', and ''Psara'', the gunboat ''Alfeios'' and the auxiliary ''Kanaris''. During this period he began his studies of the Greek seas and coasts, and composed, on his own initiative, the first studies on a lighthouse network for the Greek coasts. His initial proposals to this effect fell on deaf ears, however. In 1904 he was appointed a professor at the Navy Academy, in 1908–10 he taught aboard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zacharias Papantoniou
Zacharias Papantoniou ( el, Ζαχαρίας Παπαντωνίου, ''Zacharias Papandoniou'') was a Greek writer. He was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first years of his life in Granitsa, where his father was a teacher. Apart from a writer, he was also a journalist. Papantoniou's work was basically the first to promote Evrytania Evrytania ( el, Ευρυτανία, ; Latin: ''Eurytania'') is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Greece. Its capital is Karpenisi (approx. 8,000 inhabitants). Geography Evrytania is almost entirely formed .... A big part of his work has not been published. External links * * Brief bio-bibliography(in Greek) * * (in Greek) Granitsa Evrytanias 1877 births 1940 deaths Greek artists Greek art critics Greek writers Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) {{Greece-writer-stub People from Karpenisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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