Konstantinos Tsatsos

Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1899–1987)

Konstantinos Tsatsos (1899–1987) was a Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic. Tsatsos was born in Athens on 1 July 1899. He died in Athens on 8 October 1987, at the age of 88.

Tsatsos held office as President of Greece (1975–1980), Greek Minister of the Interior (in 1945), Minister at the Presidency of the Government of Greece (1956–1958) and Minister of Aviation of Greece (in 1945). He worked in philosophy. He was attached to National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (from 1930).

Tsatsos received Bavarian Order of Merit and honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (1979). He was elected to Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco and Romanian Academy. He was educated at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (doctorate), Heidelberg University and Varvakeion High School.

Tsatsos was the son of Dimitrios I. Tsatsos. He married Ioanna Tsatsos. He had one recorded child, Ntora Tsatsou. He is recorded as following Eastern Orthodoxy. The recorded cause of death is cancer.

Konstantinos Tsatsos is covered in 36 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond Greece.

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