Konstantinos Asopios (Greek:Κωνσταντίνος Ασώπιος) was aGreek scholar and academic teacher of the 19th century fromEpirus.
Konstantinos Asopios was born inGrammeno nearIoannina around 1790 as Konstantinos Dsolbas. He grew up poor.[1] After the death of his father, he followed his mother to Ioannina, where she had found work in the Melas family house. Thanks to his good performance at school he received a scholarship by the benefactorZois Kaplanis. Later, he was given the surname “Asopios” by the school principal,Athanasios Psalidas, which he adopted.[2]
Alongside his studies, he worked as a private teacher and used the earned money to go, together withChristoforos Filitas, toNaples to study medicine. However, a health problem forced him to go toCorfu in 1813 to recover.[3] He went toVenice after his recovery, where he worked as a translator. Later, he moved toTrieste teaching for five years at the Greek school of the city. Subsequently, he studied at the universities ofGöttingen,Berlin andParis atLord Guilford’s expenses, who knew him from Ioannina, in order to become a professor of theIonian Academy that the English nobleman intended to found, which he did in 1824.
After the death of Lord Guilford and the decline of the Ionian Academy that followed, Asopios accepted the proposal of theGreek state to join theUniversity of Athens,[4] where he served as a dean three times. He retired in 1866 due to a serious health problem and died on 19 November 1872. A big crowd attended his funeral.[5]
He was married to Eleni Asimakopoulou, whom he met during his stay in Trieste. They had two children, Irinaios and Evridiki.[6]
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