Socratis Kougeas

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Sokratis Kougeas , also in the transcription Sokrates Kugeas ( Greek Σωκράτης Κουγέας , born September 14, 1876 in Doloi (Δολοί), Western Mani , Messenia ; † September 27, 1966 ) was a Greek historian and paleographer .

Life

After attending the high school in Kalamata , Kougeas studied from 1894 to 1899 at the philosophical faculty of the University of Athens . Among the teachers there, he was most deeply impressed by Nikolaos Politis and Spyridon Lambros . Later he was to become Lambros' employee. He completed his studies in 1899 with a dissertation De novo Xiphilineo codice Iberitico 812 ("About the new Xiphilinos - Codex Iberiticus 812"). He was then a Greek teacher and school principal from 1901 to 1904, until he was able to continue his studies from 1904 to 1909 with a state scholarship in Germany and France. In Halle he heard Friedrich Blass , Wilhelm Dittenberger , Carl Robert , Ulrich Wilcken and Georg Wissowa , in Munich he was a student of Otto Crusius and Karl Krumbacher and heard Adolf Furtwängler , Iwan von Müller and Robert von Pöhlmann , in Berlin Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Hermann Diels , Eduard Meyer , Eduard Norden , Adolf von Harnack , in Paris with Daniel Serruy's papyrology. After his return to Greece he taught again in a school from 1910 on. From 1916 to 1918 he was secretary of the General State Archives.

In 1918 he received the full chair of general history at the University of Athens, which he held until his retirement in 1947. From 1931 to 1947 he was also a professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts and from 1943 to 1950 at the Pantion University . From 1923 until his death he was also the honorary director of the manuscript department of the national library . He was also a member of the first committee to select professors for the University of Thessaloniki , founded in 1925 .

Researches

Kougeas was mainly concerned with Greek history and philology, in particular with the history of the Mani and with palaeography and epigraphy . In his second year of study, Spyridon Lambros introduced him to paleography and took him on paleographic research trips to Patmos and Mount Athos as well as abroad. With Hans von Soden he looked for manuscripts of the New Testament in Andros , Athens , on Mount Athos, in Constantinople , in the monastery of Megaspiläon , on Patmos and in Thessaloniki . Together with the Byzantinist Konstantinos Amantos he edited the magazine Elleniká from 1928 to 1939 .

Awards

In 1929 he was appointed a member of the Academy of Athens and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1953 he was elected President of the Academy of Athens. In 1937 the University of Tübingen and in 1958 the University of Thessaloniki awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ο Καισάρειας Αρέθας και το έργον αυτού. Συμβολή εις την ιστορίαν της πρώτης αναγεννήσεως των ελληνικών γραμμάτων εν Βυζαντίω. Βιβλιοπωλείον Ελευθερουδάκη και Μπάρτ, Athens 1913. - (" Arethas of Caesarea and his work. Contribution to the history of the first renaissance of Greek literature in Byzantium.")
  • Σπουδαί, επιστημονικά έργα και κρίσεις αυτών. Athens 1915. - ("Studies, scientific papers and their reviews")
  • Ιστορικά έγγραφα της μονής του Ζαγαρά. Π. Δ. Σακελλαρίου, Athens 1917. - ("Historical documents of the monastery of Zagara")
  • Εντυπώσεις εκ Ρουμανίας. Athens 1925. - ("Impressions from Romania")
  • Η ιδέα της κοινωνίας των Εθνών παρά τοις Έλλησι. Πραγματεία βραβευθείσα εις τον πρώτον Κανδηλώρειον αγώνα. Athens 1928. - ("The idea of ​​the community of peoples among the Greeks. Prize-winning treatise at the first Kandelorion competition")
  • Το ηπειρωτικόν αρχείον Σταύρου Ιωάνου . Athens 1940. - ("The Epirotic Archives of Stavros Ioanou")
  • Η υπό τους Μακεδόνας Ένωσις των αρχαίων Ελλήνων και ο καταστατικός αυτής χάρτης. Διάλεξις γενόμενη εν τη αιθούση της εταιρείας μακεδονικών σπουδών. Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, Thessaloniki 1952. - ("The unification of the ancient Greeks under the Macedonians and their charter. Lecture in the lecture hall of the Society for Mecodnian Studies")
  • Η ανθρωποκτονία (το φονικό) ως διεγγύημα τρίτου εν Μάνη. Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, Athens 1953. - ("The murder (manslaughter) as a guarantee from a third party in the Mani")
  • Συμβολαί εις την ιστορίαν της υπό τους Ορλώφ Πελοποννησιακής Επαναστάσεως (1770). Τυπογραφείον Μυρτίδη, Athens 1955. - ("Contributions to the history of the Peloponnesian uprising under the Orlov ")
  • Βερολίνειος παραλλαγή του περί νηστείας εμμέτρου κανόνος Λουκά του Χρυσοβέργη. Reprint Athens 1957. - ("Berlin variant of the metric canon of Luke Chrysovergis on fasting")
  • Ιστορικαί πηγαί δια την ηγεμονίαν της Μάνης (1774-1821). Εταιρεία Πελοποννησιακών Σπουδών, Τυπογραφείον Σπυρόπουλου Athens 1961. - ("Historical sources for the supremacy of the Mani (1774-1821)")
  • Οικογενειακοί δεσμοί του Savigny προς δύο Έλληνας μαθητάς του. Π. & Α. Κλεισιούνης, Athens 1963. - ("Savigny's family ties with two Greek students")
  • Η καταγωγή του πρωτοστατήσαντος εις την Ορλωφικήν επανάστασιν Παναγιώτη Μπενάκη. Φωτιζόμενη απο τα αρχεία της Βενετίας (εννέα ανέκδοτα έγγραφα). Εταιρεία Πελοποννησιακών Σπουδών, Athens 1965. - ("The origin of the leader in the uprising against Orlov, Panagiotis Benakis. Clarified by old documents from Venice (nine unpublished documents)")
  • Τραγούδια του κάτω κόσμου. Μοιρολόγια της Μεσσηνιακής Μάνης. Athens 2000. - ("Songs of the Underworld. Mirologies from the Messenian Mani")
  • Η γυναίκα κυρία στη Μεσσηνιακή Μάνη. Μέσω προικώων και άλλων εγγράφων (1745-1864). Athens 2003. - ("The woman as mistress in the Messenian mani. Between dowry and other documents")
  • Αγνάντια στο Βενέτικο. Στιγμές από την κοινωνική και οικονομική ζωή της ΒΔ Μάνης μέσω εγγραφών (1678—1849) από τκαρο αρΐεοηο οητυ αΐτατοηο έέτυ αΐτατοηυ ωττω Εκδ. Ποταμός, Athens 2008.

literature

  • Στέλιος Λαμπάκης: Σωκράτης Κουγέας (1877–1966). Τριάντα χρόνια από το θάνατό του. In: Βυζαντινός Δόμος Volume 8-9 (1998), pp. 135-136.
  • Διονύσιος Ζακυθηνός : Σωκράτης Κουγέας. In: Νέα Εστία, Volume 95, Issue 1120 (1974), pp. 287-296, (online) . (With illustration of a bust of Michael Tombrou)
  • Το Βήμα , φύλλο (sheet) September 28, 1966: Απέθανε χθες ο Σ. Κουγέας , p. 2.

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personal data
SURNAME Kougeas, Socratis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κουγέας, Σωκράτης
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek historian and paleographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Doloi (Δολοί), Western Mani , Messenia
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1966