Symeon Savvidis

[1] His parents were prosperous merchants, and he was originally sent to study at the School of Commerce on the island of Heybeliada.

As a result, he was enrolled in the architecture school at Athens Polytechnic University, where he studied from 1878 to 1880.

While there, he made the acquaintance of Stefanos Zafiropoulos [el], a shipping magnate who was a benefactor for numerous charities.

He held numerous exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, Vienna, Paris and London.

A man of wide ranging interests, he used the colors of dawn and sunset to develop a method for weather prediction.