Alexandros Soutsos
Alexandros Soutsos | |
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Born | 1803 Constantinople (modern Istanbul) Ottoman Empire |
Died | 1863 Athens, Greece |
Occupation | poet, writer, journalist |
Nationality | Greek |
Literary movement | First Athenian School |
Notable works | The Exile (novel of 1831)
The wanderer(poem) The greek that battle the turks(The Turkomachos Hellas) (poem) |
Relatives | Panagiotis Soutsos |
Alexandros Soutsos (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος
Evangelis Zappas explicitly requested that Alexandros Soutsos and his brother Panagiotis Soutsos be made members of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games. It was Panagiotis Soutsos who first made mention of a revival of the Olympic Games in his poetry Dialogue of the Dead in 1833.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Soutzos family
- ^ David C. Young, The Modern Olympics - A Struggle for Revival, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1996, p15, ISBN 0-8018-5374-5