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Ioannis Sykutres

1901 – 1937

Greek university professor and classical philologist

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Lived 1901 – 1937 (aged 35). Ioannis Sykutres was a Greek university teacher and classical philologist.

Ioannis Sykoutris (also Johannes Sykutris; Greek: Ιωάννης Συκουτρής; 1 December 1901 – 22 September 1937) was a Greek classical philologist and professor at the University of Athens.

Early life and education Sykoutris was born in 1901 in Smyrna to a very poor family of Chian origin. He graduated in 1918 from the Evangelical School of Smyrna and became a school teacher. In 1919, he went to Athens where he studied at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Athens, graduating in 1922.

In 1924, he returned to Greece, where he worked in the Philosophiko Spoudastirio (Φιλοσοφικό Σπουδαστήριο). In 1929, he taught at the Arsakeio, subsequently he was employed at the Academy of Athens and finally as a lecturer of Ancient Greek literature at the University of Athens. and Demetrios Capetanakis.

Together with Simos Menardos, he revived the series of Hellenike Bibliotheke of Adamantios Korais, under the auspices of the Academy of Athens.

Personal life and death He died by suicide in Corinth in 1937 at the age of 35. He contributed significantly to the subject of Hellenic and Byzantine studies. He gave the archive of his work in Cyprus to his friend Louis Loizou from Famagusta, and it was lost during the 1974 war.

Publications

Συκουτρής, Ιω. Α. (Οκτώβριος 1923). «Τζιυπριώτικα τραούδκια, Λευκοσία 1923 (κρίσις)», Κυπριακά Χρονικά, 10, 305–308. Συκουτρής, Ιω. Α. (30.11.1923). «Ποιητικόν αίσθημα εν Κύπρω», εφ. Σάλπιγξ, αρ. 2077, 3. Συκουτρής, Ιω. Α. (7.12.1923). «Ποιητικόν αίσθημα εν Κύπρω», εφ. Σάλπιγξ, αρ. 2078. Συκουτρής, Ι. (1925) Κριτικά εις Αντιφώντα. Επιστημονική Επετηρίς της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Περίοδος Α΄ Τόμος 1, 109–145. Sykutris, J. (1927). Ein neues Papiaszitat, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Älteren Kirche, 26, 210–212. Sykutris, J. (1927). Isokrates’ Euagoras, Hermes, 62, 1, 24–53. Sykutris, J. (1928). Solon und Soloi, Philologus, 83, 1–4, 445–449. Sykutris, J. (1928). Epigramm aus Kition. Hermes, 63, 4, 110–111. Sykutris, J. (1928). Der Demosthenische Epitaphios. Hermes, 63, 2, 241–258. Sykutris, J. (1929). Zum Geschichtswerk des Psellos, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 30, 1, 61–67. Sykutris, J. Die Briefe des Sokrates und der Sokratiker (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums. XVIII. Band, 2. Heft). (1934). Πλάτωνος, Συμπόσιον, κείμενον, μετάφρασις και ερμηνεία υπό Ι. Συκουτρή, Ακαδημία Αθηνών, Ελληνική Βιβλιοθήκη, Αθήναι. Συκουτρής, I. (1935). Κριτικαί εκδόσεις νεοελληνικών λογοτεχνημάτων. Νέα Εστία, 18, 99–1000. Συκουτρής, I. (1936). Ο Δωδεκάλογος του γύφτου του Κ. Παλαμά: Δύο διαλέξεις. Αθήναι. (1937). Αριστοτέλους περί ποιητικής / μετάφρασις υπό Σίμου Μενάρδου; εισαγωγή, κείμενον και ερμηνεία υπό Ι. Συκουτρή Αθήναι: Ιωάννης Δ. Κολλάρος Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας,

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Evangelical School of Smyrna, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leipzig University
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Greek university professor and classical philologist (1901-1937)

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Ioannis Sykutres was born on 1 December 1901 in İzmir.

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Ioannis Sykutres died on 21 September 1937 in Corinth.

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Ioannis Sykutres was a university teacher and classical philologist.

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Ioannis Sykutres was Greek.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ioannis Sykutres

· Wikidata: Q1698470

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