About Eliza Soutsou
Lived 1837 – 1887 (aged 49–50). Eliza Soutsou was a Romanian and Greek translator.
Eliza Soutsou (, Athens, 1837 – Athens, January 1887) was a Greek writer of the 19th century. She dealt mainly with translations.
Biographical information Eliza Soutsou was born in Athens in 1837. She was the daughter of the Phanariot general Skarlatos Soutsos and Elpida ("Nadina") A. Kantakouzinou. She received significant education and was distinguished for her broad knowledge of languages. She dealt mainly with translations of which some of them were published in separate books and others in newspapers and magazines of the period.
She died unmarried in early January 1887 in Athens from a heart disease that compounded her health from the previous year. Her funeral was held in the presence of the Prime Minister Charilaos Trikoupis and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephanos Dragoumis while her relative and professor Ioannis Soutsos gave the funeral oration.
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Who was Eliza Soutsou?
Greek writer
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Eliza Soutsou was born in 1837 in Athens.
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Eliza Soutsou died in 1887 in Athens.
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Eliza Soutsou was a translator.
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Eliza Soutsou was Romanian and Greek.
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