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Tryphon E. Euangelides
1863–1941
A Greek man of letters from Asia Minor, he wrote history with a teacher’s care and a storyteller’s sense of people and events. His books often turn toward modern Greek history, including the life of Ioannis Kapodistrias.
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Ιστορία του Ιωάννου Καποδιστρίου Κυβερνήτου της Ελλάδος
by Tryphon E. Euangelides
About the author
Born in Triglia, Asia Minor, in 1863 and dying in Athens in 1941, Tryphon E. Euangelides was a Greek writer, historian, philologist, and educator. The brief biographical record available on his Greek Wikipedia page presents him as a school leader as well as a literary and scholarly figure, which helps explain the clear, instructional tone associated with his historical writing.
His surviving public-domain work is still easy to trace through Project Gutenberg, where several of his books are listed. That catalog presence suggests a writer whose interests were broad but firmly rooted in Greek history and culture, with History of Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece among the best-known titles now accessible to modern readers.
For audiobook listeners, the appeal is simple: he writes from close to the world he describes, with the habits of both a researcher and a teacher. Even when the subject is political or historical, his work offers a direct path into nineteenth-century Greek memory and identity.