Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis

Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis (born Nov. 12, 1848, Mírthio, Crete, Ottoman Empire [now in Greece]—died June 26, 1941, Athens, Greece) was the first and most important linguist of modern Greece, noted for his studies of ancient, medieval, and modern Greek and for his initiation of the Historical Lexicon of the Greek Language. As a Cretan patriot, Hatzidakis twice took part in the struggle (1866, 1897) to free Crete from the Turks. He taught linguistics at the...