Efstratios (Stratis) Pelekidis (, 1880 or 1882-1958) was a Greek archaeologist and university teacher.

Biography

He was born in 1880 or 1882''Μικρασιατικά Χρονικά'', Εκδιδόμενον υπό του τμήματος Μικρασιατικών Μελετών της Ενώσεως Σμυρναίων, Athens 1964, vol. 11, p. 76. in Dikili of Asia Minor and studied archaeology initially in the University of Athens and later in

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thanks to a grant from the Archaeological Society of Athens. He has served as a regent of antiquities found in the Macedonian region since 1914 and served as a teacher at the ''

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Gymnasium'', the Evangelical School of Smyrna and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he taught the study of

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. As an archaeologist he collaborated during

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with the archaeological service of the

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based in

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and excavated in Paleo Faliro, where in 1915 he found skeletons of victims who had been buried, in Amphipolis, where in 1920 he excavated a

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and found a building of the Early Christian period, in Edessa during the period 1922-1923, in Chalkidiki and others. He has also published several archaeological studies in journals and magazines such as the ''Archaeological Bulletin'' (''Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον''), the ''Proceedings of the Athens Archaeological Society'' (''Πρακτικά της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας'') and others. According to the official website of the Greek Masonic Arcade, Pelekidis was also a mason. He died in 1958.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pelekidis, Efstratios Year of birth uncertain 1958 deaths Greek archaeologists Greek schoolteachers National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Academic staff of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki People from Dikili