LÁMPROS, SPIRIDION. - Historian and politician, b. at Corfù in 1851, d. at Atene on 23 July 1919.
In his youth he founded and edited the literary periodical Παργοσάς. Having furthered his studies in Germany, he obtained the chair of history at the University of Atene (1890–1917). During the First World War he held the reins of his country, but, compelled to resign (Apr. 1917), he suffered confiscation of his property and internment at Hýdra and Scopelo. Brought back from there to Atene in ill health (20 March 1919), he died there. A mind of extraordinarily prolific literary output, chiefly historical, he left an unmistakable mark in original works such as the Storia della Grecia (6 vols., Atene 1886–1908), as well as in translations of the best modern historians. Among Byzantinists, his Catalogo delle biblioteche manoscritte del Monte Athos (2 vols., Cambridge 1895–1900) will always remain indispensable, as will the journal Νέος Ἐλληναγνήμων (21 vols., 1904–27), including posthumous writings.