Konstantinos Tsatsos

Konstantinos Tsatsos

Konstantinos Tsatsos ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Τσάτσος Konstandinos Tsatsos, in German also Konstantin; pseudonym Yvos Delfos Ύβος Δελφός, * July 1, 1899 in Athens ; † October 8, 1987 ibid) was a Greek lawyer , politician and writer.

Tsatsos studied law in Athens from 1915 to 1918 and then became a cryptographer at the Greek embassy in Paris . From 1925 to 1928 he studied philosophy in Heidelberg with Heinrich Rickert and Karl Jaspers, among others . In 1930 he became a professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens . In the same year he married Ioanna Seferiadis, the sister of Giorgos Seferis . From 1932 he taught legal philosophy . In 1935 he founded his own party . In 1938 he was defeated by the dictatorshipIoannis Metaxas ' arrested and exiled to the islands of Skyros and Spetses until the start of the Italo-Greek War . Thereafter, Tsatsos was repeatedly a minister in various Greek governments.

Tsatsos published two volumes of poetry and several plays under the pseudonym Yvos Delfos as well as numerous studies and legal and philosophical writings. In 1966 he was President of the Academy of Athens and from 1975 to 1980 President of Greece.

Since April 17, 1961, he had been awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Web links

Commons : Konstantinos Tsatsos  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Portrait on the side of the Greek Presidency (Greek)
• Literature by and about Konstantinos Tsatsos in the catalog of the German National Library