Panagiotis Soutsos

Panagiotis Soutsos, born in Constantinople in 1806 into a Phanariot family, was the brother of the satirist Alexandros Soutsos and the cousin of Alexandros Rizos Rangavis. Educated in Chios, Italy and Paris, he reached Greece at the end of the war and was secretary of the senate under Kapodistrias in 1830, a post he lost by opposing him. He founded the newspaper Ílios, supported the regency of King Otto, and proposed as early as 1833 the revival of the Olympic Games, an idea taken up sixty years later. The law of 1843, which excluded Greeks born outside the kingdom from public posts, pushed him towards conservatism. He died in Athens in 1868.

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