Georgios Skliros | |
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Γεώργιος Κωνσταντινίδης | |
 Georgios Skliros(date unknown) | |
| Born | Georgios Konstantinides 1878 (1878) |
| Died | 24 December 1919(1919-12-24) (aged 40–41) |
| Other names | Skliros «Σκληρός» |
Georgios Konstantinides (Greek:Γεώργιος Κωνσταντινίδης;nom de plumeSkliros (Σκληρός); 1878–1919) was an early Greeksocialist intellectual and journalist.[1] Describing contemporary reality, he based his work on the class stratification of society and, analyzing Greek society, using Marxist methods. Until his death he was considered to be “the most significant Greek Marxist”.[2]
Skleros was born to a middle-classfamily ofTrebizond inOttomanPontus, and took a typical education and cosmopolitan outlook for the city and its Greek quarter of that age, and in his younger years travelled toOdessa inRussia to work as a merchant. Later he left forMoscow, where he engaged inmedical studies, in 1904, at theUniversity of Moscow. The following year he got involved in the revolutionary movement, under the influence ofGeorgi Plekhanov,[3] taking up the pseudonym of "Skliros" ("Severe"). A series of problems with theTsarist establishment drove him toEstonia and then toJena inGermany. There, as representative of Marxist theory he met withDimitris Glinos in the "Filiki Prodevtiki Enosi" ("Friendly Progressive Unity"), a student society oriented in a socialist direction.[4]
Skleros, suffering from tuberculosis, then moved to and lived inAlexandria, where he died in 1919.
