"Tassos Gritsopoulos"

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Tasos Ath. Gritsopoulos (Dimitsana, January 1911 – Athens, December 21, 2008) was a historian, historian, philologist and writer.

Biographical data
He studied literature at the University of Athens in 1928-1932 while serving in 1940 as a reserve lieutenant in the Greek-Italian war. In 1940 he was appointed curator of Antiquities Gortynia and then curator of the institution with the then title "Public Library of the School of Dimitsana, Historical Archive of Gortynia". Later, in 1949, he classified the Vlachoyannis Archive in the General Archives of the State. In 1940-1954 he also published various folklore studies in relation to his hometown Dimitsana. He was also interested in the study of other archives of the Peloponnese, such as Ilia, Gortynia, Arcadia, etc.

In 1958 he transferred to Middle Education and in 1967 reached the rank of Chief Inspector and Superintendent of Middle Education. In 1962 she served at Dimitsana High School, while maintaining, without pay, the position of her curator there Library. During his tenure in Middle Education, between 1962-1968, he served in various Gymnasiums and Lyceia: in Tripoli, Muscat, Piraeus, the Teaching School of Primary Education and the Maraslio Educational Academy. In 1966 he was awarded a Doctorate of the Faculty of Philosophy of Athens with a degree of "excellent".

In 1969 he was elected to the office of Secretary-General, while shortly afterwards to that of the president of the Society of Peloponnesian Studies, positions from which he worked in such a way that he contributed to the Company's gaining glamour, great scientific merit and international recognition. Constantine Romeo described him in 1986 as a stylode and reformer of the Society as well as its true benefactor. Possessing positions of responsibility in the Society of Peloponnesian Studies supervised its periodical scientific publication called "Peloponnesian" while the Society on Gritsopoulos also published practical scientific conferences of local and international studies organized by it. He was president of the Society of Peloponnesian Studies in 1987–2008, until his death. The 5,000 volumes of his personal library formed the basis of the library of the Society of Peloponnesian Studies.

"Grichopoulos in the years of his active writing activity mainly publishes various articles and monographs with emphasis on church history and the history of the modern years of the Turkish occupation, as he mentions, and the years of the Greek Revolution. He seeks to return and work at the place where Dimitsana was born and is given the opportunity through the creation of the archive and Library."

She also participated actively in both the Society of Historical Studies on Modern Hellenism, initially as secretary general and later president and ran its periodical scientific publication called "Memorandum", as well as as as as founder and president of the Association of Scientific Companies Greece