Theophrastos Georgiadis

Theophrastos Georgiadis (Greek: Θεόφραστος Γεωργιάδης, 1885-1973) was a Greek author and teacher. His work about the once prosperous urban center of Moscopole, today a small mountain village in southern Albania, is considered of great value since it concerns the period before the town's destruction in 1916.[1]

Life

Two of the five surviving churches in Moscopole described by Th. Georgiadis before the 1916 destruction: St. Michael and Gabriel, (left) Dormition of the Theotokos (right).

Georgiadis was born in Moscopole, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in a region known as Northern Epirus by Greeks. He was a teacher and director in the local Greek school until 1916.[2] When Moscopole was ravaged by irregular bands during World War I, and most of its cultural buildings were destroyed, he was compelled to leave.[3]

Work

In his volume Moschopolis, first published posthumously in 1975 in Athens, Georgiadis makes brief descriptions of the 22 churches and chapels of Moscopole, from which only 5 survive today. He includes information such as donors’ inscriptions of each church, the church registers as well as descriptions of the architectural style and the decoration of each building.[3] For instance, about the Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel he mentions that it had two chapels dedicated to Saint Spiridon and Saint Nahum, which are in ruins now.[4] In the Church of the Holy Virgin, notes that a scene of the Apocalypse was depicted in the porch which is now almost completely destroyed.[5] Georgiadis gave also details about several churches that are completely destroyed, such as Saint Euthimios.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Peyfuss, Max Demeter (1989). Die Druckerei von Moschopolis, 1731-1769 : Buchdruck und Heiligenverehrung im Erzbistum Achrida. Wien: Böhlau. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-205-05293-7.
  2. ↑ Κεκριδής, 1989: p. 19
  3. 1 2 Kirchhainer, 2003: p. 1
  4. ↑ Kirchhainer, 2003: p. 4
  5. ↑ Kirchhainer, 2003: p. 13
  6. ↑ Kirchhainer, 2003: p. 16

Sources

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