Konstantinos Theotokis

Konstantinos Theotokis, born in Corfu in 1872 into a house of the Ionian nobility, studied mathematics in Paris and then philology in Munich and Graz, and shut himself away for twenty years on the family estate to read philosophy, Sanskrit and the literatures of Europe. He married an Austrian baroness. In 1897 he took part in the Cretan uprising, then turned to socialism and founded a peasants' association on his island. In 1917 he lost his wife's fortune, invested in Austria, and had to run a censorship office. He gave Greek versions of Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller and Virgil, and died in 1923.

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• NovelSlaves in Their ChainsΟι σκλάβοι στα δεσμά τουςKonstantinos Theotokis · 1922Literature