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"Polychrone Enepecide"

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Polychronis Enepecidis (12 June 1917 – 12 October 2014) was a Greek historian and professor at the University of Vienna.

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Polychronis Enepecidis was born on June 12, 1917 in Pontos Amisos studied literature and history at the University of Athens. He was educated at the Universities of Paris and Vienna, where he was awarded a doctorate, later taking over as professor and in 1960 Professor at the seat of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna, where from 1974 to 1992, when he retired, he was head of the Institute of Byzantine Studies.

Enepecides was particularly involved in historical research in archives and libraries in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Britain and Hungary.

He collaborated with well-known publications in Greece, mainly with newspapers The Step, Kathimerini and Macedonia. From 1955 he was a member of the Foreign Press Correspondents Association in Vienna.

Written work
Interzipierte griechische Briefe und Berichte uber den Ausbruch des griechischen Ausfstandes im Jahre 1821, Polychronis K. Enepekides Wien : Osterreichischen Staatsdruckerei 1951
"Aus wiener und Pariser Handschriften", reprinted by: Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantischen Gesellschaft, Bd. III, 1954
"Report on the latest surveys on Riga Velestini", Proceedings of the International Byzantine Conference of Thessaloniki, Athens 1955, vol. 2, pp. 385–403.
" Symbols in the history of the companions of Riga, I. Mavrogenes, G. Puliou, G. Theocharis", Thessalian Chronicles, Vol. 6 (1955), pp. 7-137
Documents notariaux inedits sur Adamantios Coray: tires des archives d'une etude parisienne et des archives de la Seine, Academie Verlag, Berlin 1959
"Contributions to the secret spiritual and political movement of the Greeks of Vienna before the revolution : beitrge zur Kulturellen und politischen Geheimttigkeit der Griechen in Wien von dem Griechischen Aufstand", Akademie Verlag 1960
"The Greek resistance 1941-1944 : as revealed by the secret archives of Wehrmacht in Greece : a neo-Greek tragedy : Die Griechische Widerstandsbewegung 1941-1944 : auf Grund der Geheimakten der Wehrmacht in Griechenland : eine neugriechische tragoedie", ed.Estia, 1964
"Rigas-Highland-Capist. Surveys in the archives of Austria, Germany, Italy, France and Greece", published by the Library of Estia, 1965, 1972 (b.)
"Contributions to the history of the Greek press and printeries of Vienna 1790-1821 : on the basis of Vienna archival documents : Beitrge zur Geschichte der griechischen Presse und Druckereien Wiens 1790-1821 : auf Grund der akten der Wiener Archive", 1965
"Koorais Koumas Kalvos", edition of Estia, 1967
"Vienna in major and minor tone : self-hearing and autopsy of music magic : Wien in dur und moll : Erlbert von einem augen - und ohrenzeugen der musikalischen verzauberung", ed.I.Sideris,1968
"The persecutions of Jews in Greece 1941-19