Margaritis Dimitsas

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Margaritis Dimitsas

Margaritis Dimitsas ( Greek Μαργαρίτης Δήμητσας , after an older transcription Margarites G. Demitsas ; * 1830 in Ohrid , then Ottoman Empire ; † 1903 ) was a Greek philologist and geographer .

Dimitsas studied philology in Athens from 1856 to 1859, in Berlin from 1859 to 1861 and received his doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on the history of his hometown. In 1862 he became rector in Monastir , in 1865 director of high school in Saloniki and from 1869 worked as a professor at the teachers' seminar and owner of a private teaching institution in Athens. He published about 20 writings, mostly on the geography and history of Greece, including: "Chronography and Topography of Macedonia", critical text corrections by Strabo , critical studies on the Skanderbeg tribe , on the real hometown of Päonios , a trip through Egypt (award-winning in Venice ). He wrote the geographic school textbooks for Greece in 1878 and 1885. With publications in magazines, Dimitsas underlined the political importance of geography as a legitimation for Greek nationalism, and with his research he tried to legitimize Greece's historical claim to Macedonia and Thrace.

Works

  • Translation of Otto Abel's Macedonia before King Philipp , Leipzig (Weidmann) 1847; as He Mechri Philippou Archaia Historia Tes Makedonias Leipzig 1860, reprint Athens 1991, ISBN 960-258-019-4
  • Political geography , Athens 1882
  • Viographia Olympiados Tes Epeirotidos: Neoptolemou Tou Alketou Thygatros Nominou Tou Philippou B 'Gynaikos Kai Alexandrou Tou Megalou Metros , Athens 1887, reprint Athens 1993, ISBN 960-7199-17-0
  • Macedonia in Talking Stones and Surviving Monuments , Athens 1896

Sources / web links

  • (pdf) Robert Shannan Peckham: Map mania: nationalism and the politics of place in Greece, 1870–1922 , Oxford 2000 (90 kB)