Aristotelis Kourtidis ( el, Αριστοτέλης Κουρτίδης, Myriofyto, 1858 – Piraeus, 1928) was a distinguished Greek educator and writer.

Biography

He was born in Myriofyto in Eastern Thrace and lived the first years of his life in Istanbul, where he studied in the Great School of the Nation.ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ: Lamprini Kouzeli – Ο χαμηλόφωνος οραματιστής.
/ref> In 1880 he went to Athens to study law at the University of Athens, but he did not complete his studies. Later he studied literature at the University of Athens and met the writer and historian,

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through which he came in contact with the director of the ''Diaplasis ton Paidon'' (Children's Edification) magazine, Nikolaos Papadopoulos – whose daughter later he married – to work in the magazine.Aikaterini Dermitzaki (2013). Το Εθνικό Ιστορικό Μουσείο της Ιστορικής και Εθνολογικής Εταιρείας της Ελλάδος: ίδρυση, συλλεκτική πολιτική και άλλες δράσεις (1882–1926). Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, p. 216. From 1880 until 1893 he was editor of the ''Diaplasis ton Paidon'', and he was publishing original or adapted children's stories. At the same time he collaborated with several magazines and newspapers such as ''Evdomas'', ''Hestia'', ''Clio'', ''Panathinaia'', ''Asty'', etc. In 1889, he went to Germany where he studied pedagogy and philosophy. On his return to Greece, he was professor at various schools like Arsakeio, the

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, the School of Greek Women Association and the Girls High School in Piraeus, which he directed until his death. In 1882, he was one of the founding members of the

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and later participated in the establishment of the Royal Dramatic School. Kourtidis had strong social and educational activity; he was one of the promoters of the demotic language, he signed with other scholars the statute for the establishment of the Educational Association and in 1917 he wrote one of the textbooks of the educational reform of

Eleftherios Venizelos Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos ( el, Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος, translit=Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, ; – 18 March 1936) was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movem ...

and contributed to the effort to improve the educational level of Greek women. He also gave a series of lectures on psychology and participated in numerous charitable activities. Aristotelis Kourtidis died in 1928 in Piraeus of dengue fever. According to the website of the Greek Masonic Lodge, Kourtidis was a member of the lodge Pythagoras.Μεγάλη Στοά της Ελλάδος: Αριστοτέλης Κουρτίδης

References

Bibliography

*Aikaterini Dermitzaki (2013). ''Το Εθνικό Ιστορικό Μουσείο της Ιστορικής και Εθνολογικής Εταιρείας της Ελλάδος: ίδρυση, συλλεκτική πολιτική και άλλες δράσεις (1882–1926)''. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

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