Athanasios Sakellarios

Athanasios Sakellarios (Greek: Αθανάσιος Σακελλάριος) (1826-1901) was a Greek educator, scholar and folklorist.[1] He is considered as the founder of Cyprological studies.[2]

Athanasios Sakellarios
Αθανάσιος Σακελλάριος
Personal details
Born1826 (1826)
Agios Petros, Morea Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Died1901 (1902)
Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Alma mater
OccupationEducator, Folklorist, Scholar

Early life and education

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Sakellarios was born in Agios Petros in Kynouria in 1826.[2] He studied philology at the University of Athens. In 1876 he graduated with a PhD by the Leipzig University.[1]

Career

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Between 1849 and 1854, he was the headmaster of the Greek High School of Larnaca (Σχολή της Λάρνακας).[3] From 1854 to 1867 he taught at a school in Pireaus. Then he went to Athens where he taught at various schools, including Varvakeio. In 1887 he founded his own publishing house, that was continued by his descendants.[1]

Sakellarios travelled extensively around Cyprus and recorded folk songs, games, proverbs, lullabies, myths and traditions.[1][4] Additionally, he recorded ancient inscriptions,[5] and visited various monuments, archaeological sites and ecclesiastical buildings offering descriptions of their arcitecture.[6] His years of work columnated in the edition of the monumental work Τα Κυπριακά (Ta Kypriaka). His first edition was intended to have three volumes, but he managed to publish only volume I (1855), on Cypriot history, geography, archaeology, and III (1868), on the Cypriot Dialect. Later he revised and expanded his work and published it for a second time in two volumes, I (1890) and II (1891).[4]

Personal life

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Sakellarios married a Cypriot woman, Aggeliki Demetriou Michalopoulou (Αγγελική Δημητρίου Μιχαλοπούλου) from Larnaca.[1]

See also

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Publications

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Cypriot history and folklore

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Schoolbooks

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Polignosi. "Σακελλάριος Αθανάσιος". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  2. ^ a b Kitromilidès, Pascal M. (2006). "Esquisse d'une périodisation historique de la vie intellectuelle chypriote (1571-1878)". Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes (in French). 36 (1): 125–141. doi:10.3406/cchyp.2006.875. ISSN 0761-8271.
  3. ^ Stavrides, Theoharis (2014-12-31), Michael, Michalis N.; Verdeil, Chantal; Anastassiadis, Tassos (eds.), "The Organization and Development of Greek Orthodox Education in Cyprus,1830–1878", Religious Communities and Modern Statehood, De Gruyter, pp. 246–260, doi:10.1515/9783112209141-012, ISBN 978-3-11-220914-1, retrieved 2024-04-16
  4. ^ a b Polignosi. ""Τα Κυπριακά"". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  5. ^ Iacovou, Maria (2014). "Beyond the Athenocentric misconceptions: the Cypriote polities in their economic context". Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes. 44 (1): 95–117. doi:10.3406/cchyp.2014.1543.
  6. ^ Papacostas, Tassos; Mango, Cyril; Grünbart, Michael (2007). "The History and Architecture of the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis, Cyprus". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 61: 25–156. ISSN 0070-7546. JSTOR 25472047.