Stefanos Streit

[4] After completing his general education in his home town he studied law in Athens and Leipzig and when he returned to Greece in 1861 he was appointed a magistrate.

In 1865 he was promoted to the rank of appellate, however the same year he resigned and practised law in Patras until 1872, when he was appointed director of the branch of the National Bank of Greece in Lamia.

In 1875, he was nominated lecturer of the University of Athens and the next year he became professor of constitutional and international law.

At the same time the Macedonian Struggle was strengthened and National Defense Treasury loans were issued for the rehabilitation of the Greek refugees coming from Bulgaria and Romania.

While he was a minister he managed to achieve the settlement of Greece's debts, but also to acquire a new foreign loan.