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Dimitrios Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.
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business · Greek businessman and writer (1835–1908) · historian · writer · translator · poet · businessperson · politician · scholar · prose writer · also Dimitrios Vikelas, Demetrios Vikelas, Demetrius Bikelas, Vikelas
Born 15 February 1835 · Died 20 July 1908 · Q297024
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1908· 1 entry
Died 1908-07-20.
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1905· 1 entry
Represented the University of Athens at the third Olympic Congress and seventh IOC Meeting in Brussels
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1900· 1 entry
But Vikelas convinced him and the newly created International Olympic Committee that they should be held in Athens, in order to symbolically link them to the original Games
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1899· 1 entry
Founded the "Society for the Spread of Useful Books" in Athens, to help the country to recover from its defeat
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1896· 1 entry
Designating Vikelas to preside over the organisation committee
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1894· 2 entries
Career landmark: president of the International Olympic Committee (1894–1896).
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Which followed, which would openly address the issue of amateur sports, but also with the sub-text of the recreation of the Olympic Games
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1893· 1 entry
Helped finance the construction of the Greek Orthodox church in Paris
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1892· 1 entry
Bought a new plot in Athens (between the streets of Kriezotou and Valaoriti) where he built a new residence which was also his final home
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1888· 1 entry
Phokianos organized an elite and private Games as the founder of the Pan-Hellenic Gymnastic Club
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1881· 1 entry
To him, and he published in her Nouvelle Revue
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1877· 1 entry
While Kalliope's condition was in remission, they took the opportunity to make the move
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1876· 1 entry
In the wake of the economic crisis that had started in 1873, and in order not to lose the profits of their work, Vikelas and his uncles dissolved their business (now called "Melas Bros - D
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1874· 1 entry
Following the death of her father, Vikelas' wife Kalliope began to suffer from mental problems and showed a number of suicidal tendencies
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1868· 1 entry
Published a 30-page statistical article on the Kingdom of Greece following a conference at the Royal Statistical Society; in 1870 he founded a school for Greek children living in England
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1866· 2 entries
When he contacted authors and academics to gain their support for the Cretan cause during the Cretan revolt of 1866–1869, for which he raised more fundraising
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Married Kalliope Geralopoulou, a young sister of Katerini, the wife of one of his uncles, also a member of a rich merchant family in London
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1862· 1 entry
And numerous articles in London periodicals, on the British press and the growing of cotton in Greece
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1852· 1 entry
Left home to live in London with his uncles Leon and Vasileios Melas, where he worked for their business, Melas Bros, first as a bookkeeper and then as a partner
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1835· 1 entry
Born 1835-02-15.
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