Georgios Sotiriadis
Georgios Sotiriadis , also Georgios Soteriades ( Greek Γεώργιος Σωτηριάδης ; born April 25, 1852 in Sidirokastro ; † January 30, 1942 in Athens ) was a Greek philologist and classical archaeologist .
biography
Georgios Sotiriadis was the son of Sotirios Sotiriades and Eleni Primikiri. He was born on April 25, 1852 in Demirhisar, today's Sidirokastro, in northern Macedonia , which at that time still belonged to the Ottoman Empire . He studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Athens and the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1887. In 1896 he became curator of the Athens Archaeological Society .
On April 26, 1901, he married the Greek-born Englishwoman Maria Mavrogordato in Athens. In 1912 he became a professor at the University of Athens. From 1918 to 1920 he was Vice President of the Athens Archaeological Society. In 1926 he became a professor and at the same time the first rector at the University of Thessaloniki . In the same year he also became a member of the newly founded Academy of Athens . Georgios Sotiriadis also taught at the universities of Odessa , Ioannina and Plovdiv .
Web links
- Georgios Sotiriadis at the Athens Archaeological Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: On the criticism of John of Antioch . Teubner, Leipzig 1887.
- ↑ List of the members of the Academy of Athens (gr.) ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sotiriadis, Georgios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soteriades, Georgios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek philologist and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sidirokastro |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1942 |
| Place of death | Athens |