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Curriculum vitae of
Nikolaos Yalouris (GRE)
He was born in Smyrna in 1918 and after the disaster of Asia Minor he settled
in Athens with his parents, Philemon and Anastasia. He finished his school as well
as his university studies there, at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens
(1941).
During the Italian invasion (1940-1941), he fought on the front lines and was
decorated with the silver medal for bravery and the medal for exceptional deeds.
In 1946, he continued for four years his studies in classical archeology at the
university of Basle, Switzerland and received his doctor's degree insigni cum
laude. Thereafter he served with the Department of Archeology for 36 years, first
as Inspector of Antiquities for the Western Peloponnese, with headquarters in
Olympia (1952-1966), then in Athens, as the Curator of the National Archeological
Museum of Athens and, from 1977 until 1981, as General Inspector of Antiquities
and Restoration at the Ministry of Culture. In the meantime, in 1978, he was elected
to the chair of Archeology of Athens University.
He has been working very closely, since 1958, with the HOC and the IOA, to
which he has been offering his valuable disinterested services to this day, as an ordinary
member of the IOA and regular lecturer at its sessions and other activities,
both in Greece and abroad ; he has also contributed substantially to the construction
of the IOA's facilities in Olympia, whose completion he supervised without
any interruption.
Through his comprehensive studies and lectures on the Olympic philosophy as
an education medium, which have been published in the numerous volumes of
the IOA, he has contributed to affirming the educational goals of the IOA.
In recognition of his valuable contribution, the IOA conferred on him the title
of life Vice-President in 1989.
The ties that link N. Yalouris to the HOC and the IOA, are not simply due to
the dedication he has shown, for forty years, to their work and to the messages of
Olympia and Elis, to which a large segment of his writings is consecrated, but
mostly to his belief, salient throughout his work, in the beneficial role which the
educational ideal of ancient Greece, based on the balanced training of the body
and the mind, can still have even today.
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