1. Christos Karouzos joined the Greek Archaeological Service in 1919, where he developed a reputation as an innovator and a moderniser, working to promote the use of the everyday Demotic dialect of Greek against the state-imposed dominance of the artificial, literary Katharevousa dialect.
Christos Karouzos travelled to Germany on a Humboldt Scholarship in 1928, and married his former university classmate, Semni Papaspyridi, in 1930.
Christos Karouzos was made director of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens in 1942, declined the directorship of the Archaeological Service in 1944, and was forced to resign from the service in 1948, due to suspicions that he held communist beliefs.
Christos Karouzos returned in 1949 and directed the National Archaeological Museum until shortly before his death in 1967.
Christos Karouzos was born in Amfissa on 14 March 1900.
Christos Karouzos studied philology and archaeology at the University of Athens, where he won a scholarship in 1916 ahead of the future archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos: Marinatos's resentment fuelled a lifelong rivalry between the two.
Christos Karouzos passed the selection exams to join the Greek Archaeological Service in 1919, and was awarded his degree in 1921.
Christos Karouzos became known as a leading advocate of innovation in archaeology: along with Papaspyridi and Yannis Miliadis, he advocated the incorporation of liberal and Marxist ideas into the discipline, including the use of Demotic.
Christos Karouzos's first posting with the Archaeological Service was to Thebes, where he took part in excavations at the "Pyre of Heracles" on Mount Oeta under Nikolaos Pappadakis.
Christos Karouzos subsequently worked in Attica, at Sparta and in the Cyclades.
Christos Karouzos submitted the dissertation again in 1939: this time, it passed with the support of Georgios Oikonomos.
Christos Karouzos was made director of the National Archaeological Museum in 1942.
Christos Karouzos wrote to the Ministry of Culture in November 1944, writing that all of Greece's museums were ruined beyond repair, and would have to be restored from nothing.
In 1948, during the Greek Civil War between royalist and communist forces, Christos Karouzos was forced to resign from his position in the Archaeological Service due to suspicions that he held communist beliefs.
Christos Karouzos was reppointed to direct the National Archaeological Museum in 1949 and tasked with reorganising it, alongside Karouzou.
Christos Karouzos was given the revived title of Ephor General, previously used by Panagiotis Kavvadias until 1909, in September 1961, and Karouzos and Karouzou were appointed to the same rank at the same time.
Christos Karouzos was moved from his museum position in 1964, and suffered a heart attack in December 1966; he died of a second on 30 March 1967.