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Dimitrios Vikelas
Greek businessman and writer; president of the International Olympic Committee (1835-1908)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 February 1835
- Died
- 20 July 1908
- Place of birth
- Ermoupolis
- Place of death
- Athens
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Demetrios
- Occupation
- historian, writer, translator, poet, businessperson, politician, scholar, prose writer
- Position held
- president of the International Olympic Committee, president
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Native language
- Modern Greek
- contributed to creative work
- Prevezanika Chronika
- depicted by
- Bust of Dimitrios Vikela, Veroia
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Λεξικό Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας
- educated at
- University College London
- ethnic group
- Greeks
- family
- Mela family
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English, Modern Greek
- member of
- International Olympic Committee
- name in native language
- Δημήτριος Βικέλας
- relative
- Q137786597, Georgios L. Melas, Pavlos Melas
- residence
- Ermoupolis, Constantinople, Odesa, London, Paris, Athens
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