Manolis A. Triantafyllidis ( el, Μανόλης Α. Τριανταφυλλίδης;

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

, 15 November 1883 – Athens, 20 April 1959) was a major representative of the

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movement in

education in Greece Education in Greece is centralized and governed by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (Greek: , Υ.ΠΑΙ.Θ.) at all grade levels. The Ministry exercises control over public schools, formulates and implements legislation, adm ...

He was mostly active in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

, at the

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

. He is well known for his comprehensive grammar of

Modern Greek Modern Greek (, , or , ''Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa''), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (, ), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the ...

. There is an institute named after him at the University of Thessaloniki (the Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation, also known as the Institute of Modern Greek Studies), under whose auspices the ''

Triantafyllidis Dictionary The ''Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek'' ( el, Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής) is a monolingual dictionary of Modern Greek published by the ''Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation)'' (n ...

'' (formally, ''Dictionary of Common Modern Greek'' �εξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής 1998) was published.

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