Georgios Vizyinos

Geórgios Vizyinós, born in Vizýi, in Ottoman Thrace, in 1849 into a poor family, was placed as a child apprentice with a tailor in Constantinople who mistreated him. A Greek merchant from Cyprus took him under his protection and paid for his studies, which took him to Athens and then to Germany, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy at Göttingen. Back in Athens, he taught there and published verse. Illness stopped him short: committed in 1892 to the Dromokaítio asylum, he died there on 15 April 1896.

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• Short storiesΤο αμάρτημα της μητρός μουGeorgios Vizyinos · 1883not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain