Stefanos Koumanoudis
Stefanos Koumanoudis at an advanced age
Born	1818 (1818) Adrianople
Died	31 May 1899(1899-05-31) (aged 80–81) Athens
Education	Humboldt University of Berlin,University of Paris
Occupation(s)	Archaeologist, university teacher, writer, translator
Employer(s)	University of Athens,Archaeological Society of Athens
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Stefanos Koumanoudis (Greek:Στέφανος Κουμανούδης, 1818–1899) was aGreek archaeologist, teacher and writer of the 19th century.

He was born in 1818 inAdrianople to a rich merchant family.^[1][2][3] In an early age, his family settled inBucharest, and later inSilistra where he spent most of his childhood.^[3][4] He graduated from theHumboldt University of Berlin and theUniversity of Paris.^[4][5] Fellow university students of Koumanoudis were Efthymios Kastorchis, Iraklis Mitsopoulos, Lysandros Kavtantzoglou and Emmanuel Kokkinos, who became notable teachers and archaeologists as well.^[4]

He became a lecturer in 1845, and in 1846 he was appointed a professor of Latin philology of theUniversity of Athens. In 1854 he was elected dean of the Philosophical School of the university, and in the later years 3 more times (1855–1856, 1866–1867, 1877–1888, 1884–1885).^[6] He retired in August 1886 after forty years of active teaching. His subjects mostly concerned the history of Roman letters, the life of the Romans and the interpretation of the Latin poets and writers. He was a teacher of the laterKing George I and his wifeOlga.^[7] He had been a secretary of theArchaeological Society of Athens for 36 years. Among his discoveries, during his tenure at the Archaeological Society, were theStoa of Attalos,Hadrian's Library, theTheatre of Dionysus, theDipylon and theKerameikos.^[7]

He was also a member of theInstitut de France, thePrussian Academy of Sciences and theGöttingen Academy of Sciences.^[8] He died on 31 May 1899(Gregorian calendar), and was buried the following day.^[9]

He wrote excavation reports and epigraphic publications, dictionaries and commentary versions of classical works and translated severalSerbian folk songs as well as works byVoltaire.^[10][11] His diary was preserved and transcribed by his great-grandson, fellow philologist Stefanos N. Koumanoudis, and published in 1980.^[12] He also enriched and translated the Latin dictionary of Heinrich Ulrichs (1807–1843), and in 1883 contributed to the re-issue of theArchaeological Journal, and from 1861 to 1863 he published the historical journal «Philistor» (Φιλίστωρ).^[7] He also published, with Efthymios Kastorchis, the journal «Athinaion» (Αθήναιον).^[8]

• 1818 births
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• 19th-century Greek male writers
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• Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
• University of Paris alumni
• Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
• Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
• 19th-century translators
• 19th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
• Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Greece
• 19th-century Wallachian writers

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