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Athanasios Sakellarios

Died in 1901

Athanasios Sakellarios was born in 1826 at Agios Petros, in Kynouria, and studied philology in Athens. From 1849 to 1854 he headed the Greek school of Larnaca and married a woman from the town; from then on he took an interest in the geography, history and speech of the island. Having returned to Greece in 1864, he taught in the gymnasia of Piraeus, then in 1887 founded a publishing house and a printing press, which his sons took over. He died in Athens in 1901.

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