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Spyridon Miliarakis

1852–1919

Greek physician and botanist. MD, Athens, 1876; practised medicine in Skopje and returned to Athens to teach zoology and botany, 1876–81. Studied botany at the University of Würzburg, 1881–4; PhD in natural sciences, 1884. Lecturer and curator of botany museum, Athens, 1884–92; professor of botany at the University of Athens, 1892–1918. Published articles on CD’s work, including a translation of ‘Biographical sketch of an infant’ in 1877. Researched the marine algae of Greece and wrote several general natural history texts.

Source

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, http://www.biol.uoa.gr/istorika-stoixeia/spyridwn-mhliarakhs.html, accessed 16 November 2016

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