Yannis Psycharis

Yannis Psycharis, born in Odessa on 15 May 1854 into a Greek family from Chios, spent his youth in Constantinople and settled in Paris at fourteen. In 1882 he married Noémi, daughter of Ernest Renan, with whom he had four children, was director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études after 1885, then professor of Modern Greek at the École des langues orientales from 1903 to 1928. He was one of the twenty-eight founders of the Ligue des droits de l'homme in 1898 and published some thirty volumes, all in demotic. He died in Paris on 29 September 1929.

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• EssayΤο ταξίδι μουYannis Psycharis · 1888not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain