Aristotelis Kourtidis

Aristotelis Kourtidis (, Myriofyto, 1858 – Piraeus, 1928) was a distinguished Greek educator and writer.

Biography He was born in Myriofyto of Eastern Thrace and lived the first years of his life in Istanbul, where he studied in the Great School of the Nation. In 1880 he went to Athens to study law at the University of Athens, but he did not complete his studies. Later he studied literature at the University of Athens and met the writer and historian, Dimitrios Kambouroglou through which he came in contact with the director of the Diaplasis ton Paidon (Children's Edification) magazine, Nikolaos Papadopoulos –whose sister later he married– and worked in the magazine.

From 1880 until 1893 he was chief editor of the Diaplasis ton Paidon, and he was publishing original or adapted children's stories. At the same time he collaborated with several magazines and newspapers such as Evdomas, Hestia, Clio, Panathinaia, Asty, etc. On his return to Greece, he was professor at various schools like Arsakeio, the Athens Conservatory, the School of Greek Women Association and the Girls High School in Piraeus,