12 Facts About Stefanos Koumanoudis

Stefanos Koumanoudis was a Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer of the 19th century.

Stefanos Koumanoudis was born in 1818 in Adrianople to a rich merchant family.

Stefanos Koumanoudis graduated from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Paris.

Fellow university students of Koumanoudis were Efthymios Kastorchis, Iraklis Mitsopoulos, Lysandros Kavtantzoglou and Emmanuel Kokkinos, who became notable teachers and archaeologists as well.

Stefanos Koumanoudis became a lecturer in 1845, and in 1846 he was appointed a professor of Latin philology of the University of Athens.

Stefanos Koumanoudis retired in August 1886 after forty years of active teaching.

Stefanos Koumanoudis was a teacher of the later King George I and his wife Olga.

Stefanos Koumanoudis had been a secretary of the Archaeological Society of Athens for 36 years.

Stefanos Koumanoudis was a member of the Institut de France, the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Gottingen Academy of Sciences.

Stefanos Koumanoudis died on 31 May 1899, and was buried the following day.

Stefanos Koumanoudis wrote excavation reports and epigraphic publications, dictionaries and commentary versions of classical works and translated several Serbian folk songs as well as works by Voltaire.

Stefanos Koumanoudis's diary was preserved and transcribed by his great-grandson, fellow philologist Stefanos N Koumanoudis, and published in 1980.