Aristotelis Kourtidis

He was born in Myriofyto of Eastern Thrace and lived the first years of his life in Istanbul, where he studied in the Great School of the Nation.

Later he studied literature at the University of Athens and met the writer and historian, Dimitrios Kambouroglou through which he came in contact with the director of the Diaplasis ton Paidon (Children's Edification) magazine, Nikolaos Papadopoulos –whose sister later he married– and worked in the magazine.

[2] [3] From 1880 until 1893 he was chief editor of the Diaplasis ton Paidon, and he was publishing original or adapted children's stories.

At the same time he collaborated with several magazines and newspapers such as Evdomas, Hestia, Clio, Panathinaia, Asty, etc.

[1] In 1882, he was one of the founding members of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece[2] and later participated in the establishment of the Royal Dramatic School.