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Dimitris

historian

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.

Achievements

  • In his capacity as Director of the City of Athens, he organized, in 1987, the first exhibition of Russian Art that took place in Western Europe after the collapse of Communist regimes. And as Director of the Institute for Studies on Eleutherios Venizelos and his Era, he wrote the updated Venizelos' biography and did extensive research on Ioannes Metaxas' background and family roots. During his cooperation, moreover, with the Institute of Hellenic Maritime History, he forwarded the viewpoint that Homer's Odyssey came about in the Atlantic and Americas. His idea was actually adopted and spread thanks to relevant Institute's publications.

Religion

Christian.

Politics

National Anarchist

Membership

  • Commissaire territorial pour la Grèce.

    Académie des arts et sciences de la mer , France

    2016

  • Correspondent Member.

    Sociedade da Geografia de Lisboa , Portugal

    2011

  • Fellow

    Royal Asiatic Society , United Kingdom

    2009

  • Member

    Society for Studies on the Peloponnese , Greece

    2010

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/

Interests

  • Philosophers & Thinkers

    Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Giovanni Gentile

  • Politicians

    Apostol Arsaki

  • Writers

    Mikhail Bulgakov

  • Music & Bands

    Italian, French, Russian, German and Greek Folk Music.

Connections

Married to Calliope born Manolemis; he has a son, George, Ph.D. Oxon.

References

  • Dalibor Jovanovski Greek Historiography and the Balkan Wars.
    2015
  • Jean-François Zapata Vagues et ondulations (a poem).
    2017