Athanasios Rhousopoulos

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Athanasios Sergiou Rhousopoulos ( ) (1823 – ) was a Greek archaeologist, antiquities dealer and university professor. He has been described as "the most important Greek collector and dealer between the 1860s and 1890s", and as "a key figure in the early days of archaeology in Greece." Born in 1823 in a region of northern Greece under the Ottoman Empire, Rhousopoulos was educated in Constantinople and Athens before receiving financial support from the antiquarian and philanthropist Konstantinos Bellios to pursue formal archaeological training in Germany. In 1853, he returned to Greece to work as a teacher, before being appointed to a post at the University of Athens in 1855. He wrote and translated numerous educational works concerning Greek history, culture and archaeology. Rhousopoulos played a significant role in the foundation of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and was a prominent member of the Archaeological Society of Athens, itself an important fixture in Greek archaeology during his lifetime. He excavated in Athens's Theatre of Dionysus as well as in the Kerameikos, where his 1863 discovery of the Grave Stele of Dexileos helped to confirm that the site was that of Athens's ancient cemetery.…

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1. date of birth: 1823 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 1823 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of birth: 1856 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. date of birth: 1854 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. date of death: 1898 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. date of death: 1897 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
7. date of foundation: 1837 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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