Dimitri carried out extensive research into the Greek and Balkan History. He has been involved in the struggle for the Autonomy of the Northern Epirus/Southern Albania region and, consequently, suffered persecution by the Greek Government. Nonetheless, he came out into the open that Ulysse's voyage took place in the Atlantic and Americas and his viewpoint was at last adopted by the Institute of Hellenic Maritime History.
Background
His Forefathers were autochthonous people of Arcadia, Argolis, and Elis, who took part in the 1821 Greek Revolution under the command of Theodoros Kolokotronis. After the international recognition of Southern Greece's independence, they settled in the Piraeus and during the Second World War, some of them moved to Athens.
Education
Thanks to successive scholarships he studied at the Italian School of Athens (1964-1970), the National University of Athens (1970-1974) and in Paris, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where, in 1978, he was proclaimed Docteur ès Lettres (Histoire Économique et Sociale).
Career
At the initial stage of his career (1980-1982), he was the Curator of the archives of Constantine Karamanlis', then President of the Hellenic Republic. In 1982, he was elected Lecturer of the Law School of the University of Salonika, and in 1988 Assistant Professor of the same School. In 1989 he moved to Athens and a year later was appointed Director of the Museum of the City of Athens. Further, he taught History to the Naval War College of Greece (1990-1997) and Naval History to the Naval Academy of Greece (1994-1997). Out of work because of his opposition to the leftist regime of his country during the years 2000-2002, he served as an academic adviser to the Society of People's Friends, Athens, and Director of the Institute for Studies on Eleutherios Venizelos and his Era (2004-2011). Now he is Voluntary Professor of History at the University of the People, Athens, an academic cooperator with the Institute of Hellenic Maritime History, The Piraeus, and a member of the Tsakonian Archives Working Team.
Personality
Due to his nationalist and, generally speaking, stance as well as his pro-Russian sympathies, he was overtly denied the History Professorship at the National University of Athens, notwithstanding the verdict of Greece's Supreme Court and several questions raised in the Greek Chamber of Deputies.
Quotes from others about the person
Erik Sjöberg, Battlefields of Memory. The Macedonian Conflict and Greek Historical Culture (Umeå University, 2011), (ISBN 978-91-7459-329-7)
Erik Sjöberg, “The Past in Peril”, Education Inquiry (ISSN 2000-4508), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 93-107(http://www.education-inquiry.net/index.php/edui/article/viewFile/21965/28710 [archive]).
Dalibor Jovanovski, “Greek Historiography and the Balkan Wars”, On Macedonian Matters. From the partition and annexation of Macedonia in 1913 to the present (Verlag Otto Sagner: Munich, Berlin, 2015). http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/38056455/dalibor_statija.pdf [archive]
http://www.periodicodaily.com/tra-socrate-e-hitler-vita-e-morte-di-uriel-da-costa/
Connections
Married to Calliope born Manolemis; he has a son, George, Ph.D. Oxon.