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Nikolaos Politis

Died in 1921

Nikolaos Politis was born in Kalamata in 1852 and in 1884 introduced the scholarly word laographía to designate the study of folklore. A head of office at the Ministry of Public Instruction, he urged teachers in 1887 to collect popular material, then taught folklore at the University of Athens from 1907. He founded the Greek Folklore Society in 1908, its journal in 1909, and in 1918 the Folklore Archive, attached in 1926 to the Academy of Athens. He died in 1921.

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