Giorgos Despinis

Giorgos Despinis (Greek Γιώργος Δεσπίνης, born April 16, 1936 in Pyrgos on Tinos ; † September 13, 2014 in Athens ) was a Greek classical archaeologist .

Giorgos Despinis studied Classical Archeology in Athens and Germany, he completed part of his studies from 1962 to 1964 at the Saarland University with Nikolaus Himmelmann and at the University of Freiburg with Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt . From 1971 to 1987 Despinis was a professor at the University of Thessaloniki , but retired early in order to devote himself entirely to research. Since 2002 he has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

With a team of scientists, he recorded the inventory of ancient sculptures in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki in three catalog volumes between 1997 and 2010 . He saw the publication of the first volume of a similar project in the Athens National Archaeological Museum . The sculptures of the archaic and classical times as well as the classical and Hellenistic architecture of Greece formed his research focus. His contributions to the work of Agorakritos , in particular to the " Nemesis of Rhamnous ", were significant .

On September 15, 2014 Despinis was buried in the First Athens Cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

Συμβολή στη μελέτη του έργου του Αγορακρίτου. Hermes, Athens 1971
Παρθενώνεια. Archaiologike Hetaireia, Athens 1982
High relief frieze of the 2nd century AD from Athens. Hirmer, Munich 2003
To acrolite statues from the Greek and Roman times. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004

Klaus Fittschen : a patron of antiquity. On the death of the archaeologist Giorgos Despinis. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 30, 2014, p. 12.

personal data
SURNAME	Despinis, Giorgos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Δεσπίνης, Γιώργος; Despinēs, Giōrgos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pyrgos on Tinos
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 2014
Place of death	Athens