Timoleon Filimon

Timoleon Filimon (Greek: Τιμολέων Φιλήμων 1833-1898) was a journalist, politician, a thinker of the time and teacher of King George I.

Biography

He was the son of Ioannis Filimon (el). He was born in 1833 in Nafplio (Nauplion). He studied law at the university of Athens. When he was young he was educated as a journalist in the newspaper Aion (el) which was run by his father and from 1839 to 1857 he was a journalist there. In 1857, he was jailed for three months for offending King Otto I.

He was the secretary of the three-member committee (Canaris-Zaimis-Grivas (fr)) who went to propose the Crown to future King George I in Denmark. He later worked as a teacher of the king (until 1867). In 1868 he was elected an MP of Attica for the first time (and vice-president of the Parliament), and again in the elections of 1875 and 1879. He was elected mayor of Athens in 1887.

He worked as a trustee in the Parliamentary Library from 1874 until 1887. The library numbered only 5,000 volumes until 1875, but Filimon managed to increase the number to 120,000 volumes. He was also a founding member of the Greek Historical and Ethnological Company and he was its first president. He published a book titled The Mayor (Ο Δήμαρχος O Dimarhos) while his translation of the book The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges was published posthumously (edited by Spyridon Lambrou).

He was one of the first people who helped the revival of the Olympic Games. He was the one that communicated King George's letter to George Averoff in which the King asked Averoff to financially support the project.

Timoleon Filimon was a Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Greece.^[1]

References

Sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Timoleon Filimon.

• Biography at the National Library Centre (el) (Greek)
• Konstantinos Skokos (el) (1899) Imerologion Skokou (') En Athinais: Ek tou Typografeiou ton Katastimaton Anesti Konstantinidou (Greek)
• Το Άστυ To Asty (November 15, 1887) p 113 (Greek)

v t e Mayors of Athens Anargyros Petrakis Angelos Gerontas Dimitrios Kallifronas Angelos Gerontas Dimitrios Kallifronas Dimitrios Misaraliotis Anargyros Petrakis Spyridon Benizelos Nikolaos Zacharitsas Ioannis Koniaris Konstantinos Galatis Spyridon Benizelos Georgios Skoufos Emmanouil Koutsikaris Periklis Zacharitsas Georgios Skoufos Panagis Kyriakos Dimitrios Soutsos Thrasyvoulos Papalexandris Timoleon Filimon Michail Melas Dimitrios Silyvriotis Lambros Kallifronas Spyridon Merkouris Emmanouil Benakis Georgios Tsochas Spyridon Patsis Georgios Tsochas Spyridon Patsis Spyridon Merkouris Konstantinos Kotzias Ambrosios Plytas Konstantinos Mermigas Angelos Georgatos Aristeidis Skliros Ioannis Pitsikas Antonios Ragousis Konstantinos Kotzias Konstantinos Nikolopoulos Konstantinos Kotzias Konstantinos Deligiannis Konstantinos Nikolopoulos Pafsanias Katsotas Fokion Theodoropoulos Pafsanias Katsotas Fokion Theodoropoulos Pafsanias Katsotas Alexandros Magriplis Pafsanias Katsotas Angelos Tsoukalas Ioannis Papakonstantinou Georgios Plytas Dimitrios Ritsos Konstantinos Darras Ioannis Papatheodorou Dimitris Beis Miltiadis Evert Nikolaos Giatrakos Antonis Tritsis Leonidas Kouris Dimitris Avramopoulos Dora Bakoyannis Fotini Pipili Theodoros Bechrakis Nikitas Kaklamanis Giorgos Kaminis

Persondata
Name	Filimon, Timoleon
Alternative names
Short description	Greek politician, Mayor of Athens
Date of birth	1833
Place of birth	Nafplio
Date of death	1898
Place of death