Demetrios Kalopothakes

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Demetrios M. Kalopothakes ( Greek Δημήτριος Καλοποθάκης , German transliteration: Dimitrios Kalopothakis , * August 20, 1867 ; †?) Was a Protestant Greek and historian.

Life

His father was Michail Kalopothakis from Sparta and his mother the American Martha , née Blackler. Kalopothakes lost his mother early. He attended the school of Georgios Manusios and then moved to the III. Athens high school, where he graduated from high school in 1883 . In the same year he went to America and matriculated at Harvard . There he earned a bachelor's degree in history and philology before returning to Greece. There he did archaeological studies for some time before moving to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1890 and continuing his studies there. He studied with Ernst Curtius , Hermann Diels , Wilhelm Dilthey , Hirschfeld, Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz , Adolf Kirchhoff , Koehler, Max Rothstein , Paul Scheffer-Boichorst , Johannes Vahlen and did his doctorate in Latin on the Roman province of Thrace.

After his return to Greece he was one of the elders of the Greek Evangelical Church . and a pioneer of Christian Endeavor .

family

His sister Mary Kalopothakes was a doctor and active in youth work for the Evangelical Church of Greece .

Works

  • Life and Work of the Apostle Paul. (Ο Βίος Και Το Έργον Του Αποστόλου Παύλου). Εκδόσεις "ο Λόγος" / "Pyrsou", Athens 1933.
  • De Thracia Provincia Romana. Typis M. Hoffmanni, Leipzig 1893.
  • Ymnologion dia Theian latreian meta mousikēs ekdosis deutera. Athens 1889.
  • Ho chōrismos tēs stratiōtekēs kai politikēs exusias kai hē Rōmaikē dioikēsis para tu Katō Dou abin Diatribē epi hyphēgesia. Basil. Typogr. NG Inglesē, Athens 1894.
  • Hē Anglia kai ho Polemos, dialexis. (Ἡ Ἀγγλία καὶ ὁ Πολεμος, διάλεξις). Athens 1918.
  • The settlement of Turkey / by Polybius. Reprint from the Asiatic Review. London 1919.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Thracia Provincia Romana. Dissertatio Inauguralis Historica. Berlin 1893 ( PhD thesis with "Vita"  - Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Clark: Memories of Many Men in Many Lands . Boston 1922, p. 428
personal data
SURNAME Kalopothakes, Demetrios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalopothakes, Demetrios M .; Καλoποθάκης, Δημήτριος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant Greek and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH after 1919