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Greek archaeologist and academic (1880–1965) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Georgios Sotiriou or Soteriou (Greek: Γεώργιος Σωτηρίου) he was a Byzantinist, archaeologist, curator and later head of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.[1]

Born1880 (1880)
Died24 January 1965(1965-01-24) (aged 84–85)
OccupationsArchaeologist, Byzantinist, museologist, university teacher
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Georgios Sotiriou
Born1880 (1880)
Died24 January 1965(1965-01-24) (aged 84–85)
OccupationsArchaeologist, Byzantinist, museologist, university teacher
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Soteriou was born in Athens in 1880, he studied in Athens and Europe. In 1915 he was appointed Ephor-General of Antiquities and in 1923 he became the director of the Byzantine and Christian Museum.[2] He became the president of the Academy of Athens for the year 1941.[3]

Soteriou contributed greatly to the organisation of the Greek Archaeological Service and Byzantine archaeology in Greece. Among his excavations where, the Byzantine church at Ilisos in Athens, at Nea Anchialos; he also studied the church of Agios Demetrios in order to conserve the monument after the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917.[2] The conservation of the church was an arduous project that lasted into the 1950's, due to financial challenges, war and political volatility.[4] Furthermore he studied with his wife, Maria, the icons from Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.[5]

He was invited by Kyrillos III of Cyprus to study the Byzantine monuments of Cyprus.[6] Where he published Byzantine monuments, among them Saint George of the Greeks.[7] Some of the drawings of his publications in Cyprus were done by the topographer Theophilus Amin Halil Mogabgab. He coined the term Franco-Byzantine to describe the church architecture of Medieval Cyprus.[8]

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