Background
Zappas was born in 1814 in the village of Labova e Madhe (Mega Lambovo), between Gjirokastër (Argyrokastro) and Tepelenë, in today"s Albania, then in the Ottoman Empire.
Zappas was born in 1814 in the village of Labova e Madhe (Mega Lambovo), between Gjirokastër (Argyrokastro) and Tepelenë, in today"s Albania, then in the Ottoman Empire.
He was appointed manager of the Olympic Committee that organised the so-called Zappas Olympics, a Greek athletic festival held in 1859, 1870 and 1875 and forerunner of the modern international Olympics. In 1881 he bought extended field areas in Thessaly and the following years contributed to the building of the Zappeion building in Athens, which was officially opened at 28 October 1888. Moreover, a number of Greek schools and educational facilities were built with his personal financial support.
Including the female schools in Constantinople (Istanbul), in his hometown Labovë, as well as in a number of towns in Epirus (Tepelene, Delvine) and Thessaly.
Many students benefited from his scholarships for post graduate studies in Western Europe (mostly in the scientific fields of agriculture). He died in 1892 in Mantes-la-Jolie, France.
There was also land and money in Greece that Konstantinos left to the Greek government.
Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.
