Georgios Soteriou

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Georgios Soteriou (Greek: Γεώργιος Σωτηρίου) (1880 or 1881-1965) he was a Byzantine archaeologist, curator and later head of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.[1]

Career[edit]

Soteriou was born in Athens in 1880, he studied in Athens and Europe. In 1915 he was appointed General Curator of Antiquities and in 1923 he became the director of the Byzantine and Christian Museum.[2] He became the president of the Academy of Athens for the year 1941.[3]

Soteriou contributed greatly to the organisation of the Archaeological Service and Byzantine Archaeology in Greece. Among his excavations where, the Byzantine church at Ilyssos in Athens, at Nea Anchialos, additionaly, he studied the church of Agios Demetrios in order to conservate the monument after the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917.[2] The conservation of the church was an ardouous project that lasted into the 1950's, due to financial challenges, war and political volatility.[4] Furthermore he studied with his wife, Maria, the icons from Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.[5]

For some time he worked in Cyprus, whhere he published Byzantine monuments, among them Saint George of the Greeks.[6] Some of the drawings of his publications in Cyprus were done by the topographer Theophilus Amin Halil Mogabgab. He coined the term Franco-Byzantine to describe the church architecture of Medieval Cyprus.[7]

Publications[edit]

Publications about Soteriou[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Karatzas, Georgios (2022). "On the Articulation and Popularization of Christian Built Heritage: Representing National Continuity in Nineteenth-Century Athens". Forging Architectural Tradition: National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 4 (1 ed.). Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-80073-337-4.
  2. ^ a b "Από το αρχαιολογικό έργο του Γ. Σωτηρίου". Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  3. ^ "Πρόεδροι της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών από την ίδρυσή της". Ακαδημία Αθηνών. 2015-11-11. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  4. ^ Bakirtzis, Nikolas (2022). "Perceptions, histories and urban realities of Thessaloniki's layered past". In Key Fowden, Elizabeth; Çağaptay, Suna; Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward; Blanke, Louise (eds.). Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism. Oxbow Books. pp. 199–221.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ^ Andronikou, Anthi (2017). "Southern Italy, Cyprus, and the Holy Land: A Tale of Parallel Aesthetics?". The Art Bulletin. 99 (3): 6–29. ISSN 0004-3079.
  6. ^ Bacci, Michele (2014). "IDENTITY MARKERS IN THE ART OF FOURTEENTH-CENTURY FAMAGUSTA". The Harbour of all this Sea and Realm: Crusader to Venetian Famagusta (1 ed.). Central European University Press. doi:10.7829/j.ctv10tq67f.14. ISBN 978-615-5225-96-3.
  7. ^ Mersch, Margit (2014). "Hybridity in Late Medieval ecclesiastical architecture on Cyprus and the difficulties of identifying Saints Peter and Paul of Famagusta". Identity/Identities in Late Medieval Cyprus. Nicosia. pp. 241–279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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