Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis

Greek linguist
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Also known as: George Hatzidakis
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Born:
Nov. 12, 1848, Mírthio, Crete, Ottoman Empire [now in Greece]
Died:
June 26, 1941, Athens, Greece (aged 92)

Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis (born Nov. 12, 1848, Mírthio, Crete, Ottoman Empire [now in Greece]—died June 26, 1941, Athens, Greece) was the first and most important linguist of modern Greece, noted for his studies of ancient, medieval, and modern Greek and for his initiation of the Historical Lexicon of the Greek Language. As a Cretan patriot, Hatzidakis twice took part in the struggle (1866, 1897) to free Crete from the Turks. He taught linguistics at the National Capodistrian University of Athens (1885–1923) and the Aristotelian University of Thessaloníki (1926–28). Between 1881 and 1935 he wrote 9 books and more than 600 ...(100 of 159 words)