Anastasios Metaxas
Anastasios Metaxas ( Greek Ἀναστάσιος Μεταξάς ; * February 27, 1862 in Athens ; † January 28, 1937 ) was a Greek architect and shooting sportsman .
Metaxas worked for about 25 years as an architect and site manager in the office of the architect, building researcher and archaeologist Ernst Ziller . During this time he led the reconstruction of the Panhellenic Stadium , the design of which came from the rediscoverer and excavator Ernst Ziller. The first Olympic Summer Games in Athens in 1896 were held in this stadium . Metaxas took part in the shooting games itself and took fourth place in the competitions with the military rifle over 200 and 300 meters.
Ten years later Metaxas took part in the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games, which took place again in the stadium he had rebuilt. He participated in nine competitions. In the double trap shooting, he took second place. In the team competition with the free rifle, he was fourth with the Greek team. In trap shooting, he finished third at the 1908 Games in London and sixth in Stockholm in 1912 .
After 1908 Metaxas was the architect and supervised the construction of the church of Agios Andreas in Patras .
Web links
- Anastasios Metaxas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maro Kardamitsi-Adami; Dionysis Zivas (preface); Giorgis Gerolympos (photos): Classical Revival: The Architecture of Ernst Ziller 1837–1923 . Melissa Publishing House, Athens 2006, ISBN 960-204-275-3 , pp. 138 (English).
- ↑ Friedbert Ficker Gert Morzinek, Barbara Mazurek: Ernst Ziller - A Saxon architect and architectural historian in Greece; The Ziller family. Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2003, p. 18, ISBN 3-89870-076-3 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metaxas, Anastasios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Μεταξάς, Αναστάσιος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek architect and marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1937 |