Dionyssios Kokkinos was a Greek

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Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 historian and writer.

Kokkinos was born in Pyrgos in the modern Ilia Prefecture. He studierd at the Medical School at the University of Athens, he otherwise cut his studies and he later educated history and literature. He published the paper Mellon

Mellon (newspaper)

Mellon was a Greek-language socialist weekly newspaper, founded in 1909. Mellon was published from Athens, the first issue came out in March 1909. The newspaper was founded by D. Kokkinos. The modern Greek literature scholar A. Steinmetz, was Kokkinos' most important collaborator....

as well as the Akropoli, Kathimerini

Kathimerini

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, Patrida, Protevoussa, Elliniki, Proia and Ethnos

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. He became a leader of the National Library

National Library of Greece

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 and a member of the Athens Academy

Athens Academy

Athens Academy is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school originally founded in Athens, now located in Oconee County, Georgia, United States. The school sponsors grades K through 12, and also operates a preschool. It was founded in 1967. The school's motto is Excellentia Cum Honore...

 in 1955.