Pavlos Karakostas

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Pavlos Karakostas (Παύλος Καρακώστας, * 1937 in Perdikaki ( Aetolia-Acarnania ); † 2002 ), was a Greek writer and non-fiction author specializing in education, history and local research.

Life

Born in the Akarnan mountain village of Peridikaki, Karakostas completed a teacher training course and was headmaster. After studying at the social and political science Pantion University of Athens , he worked in the Greek Ministry of Education (responsible for schools abroad). To this end, as general secretary of a pan-Hellenic educators' association , he endeavored to reform the education system and was active as a journalist for this purpose.

His main work To Sakaretsi , published in 1999, deals with the history of Perdikaki and the origin and history of the Sakaretsi or Sakaratsani, an ancient Greek tribe that is believed to have been on the side of Athens more often in antiquity , and to defend themselves against the Aetolian League had to.

Works

  • 1995 Peninta chronia meta ( Πενήντα χρόνια μετά ) Athens 1995 (translation of the title: Fifty Years Later ).
  • 1998 Triplevros ( Ο Τρίπλευρος ) Athens 1998 (translation of the title: The three-sided , short story).
  • 1999 To Sakaretsi ( Το Σακαρέτσι ) Athens 1999 (translation of the title: The Sakaretsi ), 344 pp.

So far, none of his works have been translated into German.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf-Eckhard Gudemann: Lexicon of History . Orbis-Verlag, Niedernhausen / T. 2001, ISBN 3-572-01285-6 , p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Karakostas, Pavlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karakostas, Pavlos K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Perdikaki , Greece
DATE OF DEATH 2002