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Georgios Sotiriou

Georgios Sotiriou or Soteriou () he was a Byzantinist, archaeologist, curator and later head of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.

Career

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. He became the president of the Academy of Athens for the year 1941.

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. The conservation of the church was an arduous project that lasted into the 1950's, due to financial challenges, war and political volatility. Furthermore he studied with his wife, Maria, the icons from Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

He was invited by Kyrillos III of Cyprus to study the Byzantine monuments of Cyprus. Where he published Byzantine monuments, among them Saint George of the Greeks. 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.

Publications

Publications about Soteriou

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