The Leontsini and Kasimatis families in Chora and Keramouto of Kythera

The announcement by Emeritus Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens George Leontsinis includes special references to the persons and families of Nikos Panagiotos Leontsinis or Bloukos and Irini Leontsinis, née Nikolaos Kasimatis or Loutzis, sponsors and founders of the Leontsinis Spiritual Centre. The professor refers to the history of their birthplace, the village of «Keramuto» and the ecclesiastical tradition of its inhabitants with emphasis on its parish formation. The text is dedicated to their memory.

Biography

Georgios Leontsinis is Professor Emeritus of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor of Modern Greek and European History and Professor of History Teaching. He has taught for many years at the Department of History of the Ionian University, the Department of Primary Education of the University of Thessaly, the Hellenic Open University, the Harokopeion University and, as Visiting Professor, at universities in Cyprus, Malta, Albania, Australia, China and Norway.

He completed his studies in Kythera and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens, where he received successively the degrees of Classical Philology and History-Archaeology. He completed postgraduate studies in England (University of East Anglia, School of Modern Languages and European History) on a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation, leading to a Ph.D. in Modern Greek and European History. His dissertation, which was written in the field of Modern Greek and Modern Greek Studies and in the field of Modern and Contemporary European Studies, was published in the period from 1998 to 2006. The Island of Kythera: A Social History, 1700-1863 has been published in English by the Saripoleion Foundation of the University of Athens. He carried out postdoctoral research in the field of modern Greek and European history at the University of London, Holloway and Bedford New College, Department of History, in the capacity of Visiting Scholar.

He has organized international and national scientific conferences and has participated in conferences and seminars. He has published more than 100 scientific studies to date in Greek and international scientific journals and edited volumes. He has published fifteen (15) books on topics related to modern Greek and European history and history teaching and has edited twelve (12) volumes of international and national conference proceedings. In 2012, at a scientific event organized in his honor by the Department of Primary Education of the University of Athens, he was awarded a volume of dedication entitled History of Care by the Rector of the University of Athens. He is one of the founding members and current President of the Society for the Theory, Research and Teaching of History.