Athanasios A. Sakellarios

Athanasios Sakellarios (; 1826-1901) was a Greek educator, scholar and folklorist. He is considered the founder of Cyprological studies.

Early life and education Sakellarios was born in Agios Petros in Kynouria in 1826. From 1854 to 1867, he taught at a school in Pireaus. Then he went to Athens where he taught at various schools, including Varvakeio. In 1887 he founded his own publishing house, that was continued by his descendants. Additionally, he recorded ancient inscriptions, and visited various monuments, archaeological sites and ecclesiastical buildings offering descriptions of their architecture. His years of work culminated in the edition of the monumental work Τα Κυπριακά (Ta Kypriaka). His first edition was intended to have three volumes, but he managed to publish only volume I (1855), on Cypriot history, geography, archaeology, and III (1868), on the Cypriot Dialect. Later he revised and expanded his work and published it for a second time in two volumes, I (1890) and II (1891).

Personal life Sakellarios married a Cypriot woman, Aggeliki Demetriou Michalopoulou (Αγγελική Δημητρίου Μιχαλοπούλου) from Larnaca.