1. Helle Lambridis, spelled Helle Lampride or Elli Lambridi, was a Greek philosopher who wrote extensively in the fields of ancient and modern philosophy.
20 Facts About Elli Lambridi
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Elli Lambridi wrote on archaeology, wrote fiction and produced translations.
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Elli Lambridi was an educator and was active in Greek left-wing politics and feminism from an early age.
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Elli Lambridi was born in Athens on 22 January 1896.
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Elli Lambridi's father, Ioanni Lambridi, from Doliana, Epirus, was a lawyer and senator in the first Venizelos administration, and known for his work concerning the liberation of Epirus.
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Elli Lambridi was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to study in Zurich in 1917, which she completed in philosophy and pedagogy.
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Elli Lambridi received her PhD in 1919 with a thesis on Aristotle's principles of knowledge.
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Elli Lambridi was appointed headmistress at the American College for Girls in Athens, where she organised the programme for the Greek department.
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Elli Lambridi's daughter, Nike, was born in 1923; however, the couple were divorced soon afterwards.
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Elli Lambridi continued teaching and became engaged in philosophical and political issues.
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Elli Lambridi returned to teaching in 1930, having been appointed Deputy Director of Teaching at Marasleio Teachers College.
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Elli Lambridi worked as a private teacher in Athens, but devoted her time to studying and writing philosophy.
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Elli Lambridi published many other articles in various literary and philosophical publications.
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Elli Lambridi received a scholarship from the British Council to study the English education system at London's Institute of Education and arrived in London in September, 1939.
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Elli Lambridi returned to Greece in early 1945, only to be informed that her daughter, who had spent the war with family and friends, had been hit by shrapnel from a British mortar a few days earlier.
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Elli Lambridi died on 3 Jan 1945, aged 22, an innocent victim of the Dekemvriana.
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Elli Lambridi later published an account of her daughter's life told in parallel to contemporary Greek history entitled Nike.
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Elli Lambridi remained in Greece for about a year before returning to the UK.
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Elli Lambridi died in Athens on 28 January 1970, aged 74.
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Elli Lambridi prepared a work on traditional and modern logic that she regarded as her written philosophical legacy, which is still unpublished.