Dimitrios Vikelas

Dimitrios Vikelas, born in Ermoupoli, on the island of Syros, in February 1835, was the son of a merchant from Veroia and of a Melas, of the wealthy trading house, who educated him at home. As a teenager he joined his uncles, grain merchants in London, stayed there twenty years and made his fortune. He then lived fifteen years in Paris, translated Shakespeare into Greek during his wife's periods of confinement, and devoted himself to letters and philanthropy. The congress of 1894 chose him to preside over the Olympic committee, and he secured that the first Games be held in Athens. He died in that city in July 1908.

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• NovelLoukis LarasΛουκής ΛάραςDimitrios Vikelas · 1879LiteraturePublic domain