Dimitrios Hatzis

In 1932-1934 he was influenced by Marxist ideologies and joined the Communist Party of Greece.

[2] Hatzis got involved in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), where he joined the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE).

As a result, following the Left's defeat, he went into exile and until the legalization of the Greek Communist Party in 1975, he lived in various socialist countries in Eastern Europe.

[3] In 1962 Hatzis took up a position at the Byzantine Studies Department at the University of Budapest.

He also worked on the translation and anthology of a wealth of texts in the Hungarian language.

A plaque in Budapest, commemorating the life of Dimitris Hatzis. The first line in Greek means "in this building lived the author Dimitrios Hatzis".