Konstantinos Asopios

[1] After the death of his father, he followed his mother to Ioannina, where she had found work in the Melas family house.

Thanks to his good performance at school he received a scholarship by the benefactor Zois Kaplanis.

Later, he was given the surname “Asopios” by the school principal, Athanasios Psalidas, which he adopted.

Subsequently, he studied at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Paris at Lord Guilford’s expenses, who knew him from Ioannina, in order to become a professor of the Ionian Academy that the English nobleman intended to found, which he did in 1824.

After the death of Lord Guilford and the decline of the Ionian Academy that followed, Asopios accepted the proposal of the Greek state to join the University of Athens,[4] where he served as a dean three times.