Efstratios Pelekidis

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Efstratios Pelekidis
Efstratios Pelekidis with some of his findings in 1915
Born1880 or 1882
Died1958
NationalityGreek
EducationUniversity of Athens
Occupation(s)Archaeologist, epigraphist teacher
Employer(s)Archaeological Society of Athens and others

Efstratios (Stratis) Pelekidis (Greek: Ευστράτιος Πελεκίδης, 1880 or 1882-1958) was a Greek archaeologist and university teacher.

Biography[edit]

He was born in 1880[1] or 1882[2] in Dikili of Asia Minor and studied archaeology initially in the University of Athens and later in Germany thanks to a grant from the Archaeological Society of Athens.[1] He has served as a regent of antiquities found in the Macedonian region since 1914 and served as a teacher at the Mytilene Gymnasium,[1] the Evangelical School of Smyrna and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he taught the study of epigraphy.[2]

As an archaeologist he collaborated during World War I with the archaeological service of the British army based in Thessaloniki and excavated in Paleo Faliro,[3] where in 1915 he found skeletons of victims who had been buried,[4] in Amphipolis, where in 1920 he excavated a Basilica and found a building of the Early Christian period,[5] in Edessa during the period 1922-1923,[6] in Chalkidiki and others.[7]

He has also published several archaeological studies in journals and magazines such as the Archaeological Bulletin (Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον), the Proceedings of the Athens Archaeological Society (Πρακτικά της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας) and others.[8] According to the official website of the Greek Masonic Arcade, Pelekidis was also a mason.[1] He died in 1958.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Πελεκίδης Ευστράτιος". grandlodge.gr. Η Μεγάλη Στοά της Ελλάδος. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Μικρασιατικά Χρονικά, Εκδιδόμενον υπό του τμήματος Μικρασιατικών Μελετών της Ενώσεως Σμυρναίων, Athens 1964, vol. 11, p. 76.
  3. ^ Andrew Shapland, Η συλλογή της British Salonica Force (Βρετανική Δύναμη Θεσσαλονίκης) στο Βρετανικό Μουσείο, στο Πολυξένη Αδάμ-Βελένη, Αγγελική Κουκουβού (editor), Αρχαιολογία στα μετόπισθεν. Στη Θεσσαλονίκη των ταραγμένων χρόνων (1912 - 1922), Thessaloniki 2012, p. 75.
  4. ^ Kotti, Aggeliki (14 April 2016). "Στο φως το σκοτεινό μυστικό της αρχαίας Αθήνας". ethnos.gr. ΕΘΝΟΣ. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Χριστιανική Αμφίπολις". ulysses.culture.gr. Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 14 January 2017.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Anastasia Chrysostomou, Αρχαιολογικός χώρος Έδεσσας: 40 χρόνια μετά την έναρξη των ανασκαφών από τον Φ. Πέτσα, περιοδικό Μακεδονικά, Σύγγραμμα περιοδικόν της Εταιρείας Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, vol. 39 (2010 - 2012), Thessaloniki 2013, p. 140.
  7. ^ Ioulia Vokatopoulou, Ηπειρωτικά και Μακεδονικά Μελετήματα, Archaeological Society of Athens, 2001, vol. Β', p. 634.
  8. ^ "Αρχαία Αμφίπολη: Ιστορία-Ανασκαφικές Έρευνες-Μνημεία". istorikoiperipatoi.gr. Ιστορικοί Περίπατοι. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 6 July 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2017.