Dimitrios Sarros
A portrait of Dimitrios Sarros.
Native name	Δημήτριος Σάρρος
Born	c. 1869/70 Vitsa, Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died	c. 1937 Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Allegiance	Kingdom of Greece
Service/branch	HMC
Battles/wars	Macedonian Struggle
Alma mater	Zosimaia School University of Athens
Other work	Scholar Teacher Writer Educational advisor

Dimitrios Μ. Sarros ( Greek: Δημήτριος Σάρρος; 1869/70-1937) was a Greek scholar, teacher, soldier and writer of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography

Sarros was born in 1869 ^[1] or 1870 in Vitsa of Zagori. ^{[2] [3]} He graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina and later from the Philosophical School of the University of Athens. ^{[1] [2] [3]} He initially was appointed as a teacher to a school of Piraeus (1897). ^{[1] [2]} He later taught in Larnaca and in the Pancyprian Gymnasium of Nicosia. ^[1] In 1902 he was appointed as a teacher to Serres and Alexandroupoli, where he got involved with the Macedonian Committee and became an active member of the Macedonian Struggle. ^{[1] [2]} Later, he served as a teacher in the Phanar Greek Orthodox College, the Joachimio Greek Girls' School of Constantinople and in Thessaloniki. ^{[2] [3]} He was also a member of the Greek Philological Society of Constantinople (Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος) and contributed as a judge and rapporteur in literary and folklore competitions of the philological magazine of the Society. ^[2] At the same time, he developed nationalistic actions, as in 1912 he organized the first congress of teachers of the enslaved Hellenism of Asia Minor and attended a Great National Assembly, thus being expelled and imprisoned by the Ottoman authorities. ^[2] After the Asia Minor Catastrophe, he taught in Corfu and later in Kallithea. ^[3] In 1926 he became an educational advisor of the Greek Ministry of Religious Affairs and Education until 1935. ^{[1] [3]}

Selected writings

• Démétrios M. Sarros. Διορθωτικὰ εἰς Εὐριπίδην Ἰφιγένεια ή ἐν Ταύροις, original 1920, Constantinople
• Παρατηρήσεις εις το Ηπειρωτικόν γλωσσάριον του Π. Αραβαντινού, 1920, Constantinople
• Περί των εν Ηπείρω Μακεδονία και Θράκη συνθηματικών γλωσσών, 1923, Athens
• Πώς είδε και πώς ετραγούδησεν ο Λόρδος Βύρων την Ήπειρον, 1935, Athens

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