Linos Politis

The historian of modern Greek literature, Solomos scholar, philologist, paleographer, archaeologist, university professor, and academician Linos Politis (1906-1982) was born in Athens. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens, where he earned his doctorate in 1931. He continued his studies in classical and Byzantine philology in Munich, Berlin, and Paris. From 1929 to 1948, he served as a curator in the manuscript department of the National Library and as an antiquities curator in Patras from 1943 to 1945. In 1948, he assumed the chair of Modern Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki until his resignation in 1969. He was the founder and president of the Macedonian Art Society "Techni" (1951-1976) and co-editor with Kyriakidis of the journal "Hellenika." In 1980, he was elected a regular member of the Academy of Athens. He was a founding member of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (1966) and the visionary behind the foundation's Paleographic Archive. His articles and studies were published in proceedings, yearbooks, and journals ("Anglo-Hellenic Review," EEFSPTH, "Hellenika," "Cretan Chronicles," "Nea Estia," "Proceedings of the Academy of Athens," "Philologos," etc.). He used the pseudonyms A.E., Amateur Archaeologist, Simple Reader, Teacher, The Athenian. He passed away in 1982 in Athens. (Source: Archive of Contemporary Authors, EKEBI)