Tasos Neroutsos (

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: Τάσος Νερούτσος; 1826–1892) was a Greek physician and scholar. Neroutsos was born in

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in 1826 to an

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family. From 1848 to 1884 he studied medicine at the

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. During his studies he corrected and translated into

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the works of

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and Guilielmus Xylander regarding Albanians. During the era before the

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, in which the final form of the

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was decided, he was among the Arvanite scholars who supported the use of the

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. Neroutsos lived for most of his life in

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where he conducted Egyptological studies. He was the first to publish an archaeological review of the 1874 excavations of

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tombs in Alexandria. p. 13. Neroutsos died in 1892, while his family emigrated in the

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. His descendant Helga Neroutsos-Hartinger published his correspondence with Albanologist

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References

Bibliography

* Neroutsas-Hartinger, Helga (1992), « Der Briefwechsel zwischen Tassos Neroutsos Bey und Gustav Meyer. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Albanologie», in Südost-Forschungen 51, 1992, p. 105-148. * Chrysikopoulos, V. (2008), « Contribution à l’étude de l’histoire d’égyptologie : Tassos Neroutsos et la genèse de l’égyptologie en Grèce. Nikolaos Boufidis et la collection d’antiquités égyptiennes du musée national d’Athènes » (« Contribution to the study of the history of Egyptology : Tassos Neroutsos and the birth of Egyptology in Greece. Nikolaos Boufidis and the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the National Archaeological Museum»), Hommages Jean Claude Goyon, Cairo: IFAO (BiÉtud) 143, p. 87-98. * Chrysikopoulos, V. (2011), « La réception de l’Egypte ancienne dans la Grèce du XIXe siècle : Egyptologues avertis, voyageurs passionnes et gout oriental » (« The reception of ancient Egypt in Greece in the 19th century: Aware Egyptologists, passionate voyagers and oriental taste»), in Francis, J.E. and Harrison, G. W. M. (eds.), Life and Death in Ancient Egypt. The Diniacopoulos Collection, Montréal : Concordia University, p. 18-27. * Chrysikopoulos, V. (2013), « A l’aube de l’égyptologie hellénique et de la constitution des collections égyptiennes: Des nouvelles découvertes sur Giovanni d’Anastasi et Tassos Neroutsos » (« At the dawn of Hellenic Egyptology and of the constitution of Egyptian collection: New discoveries on Giovanni d’Anastasi and Tassos Neroutsos»), in Kousoulis, P. and Lazaridis, N. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, Leuven: Peeters

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