Christos Tsountas

Christos Tsountas (Greek Χρήστος Τσούντας, * 1857 in Stenimachos (Ottoman Empire, today Bulgaria), † June 9, 1934 in Athens ) was a Greek classical archaeologist. He is considered the co-founder of the scientific study of the history of Greece and "Father of the Cyclades research ".

Christos Tsountas attended school in Athens and then entered the University of Hannover with a degree in engineering, but quickly moved to study classical archeology, classical philology at the universities of Munich and Jena. In Jena, he received his doctorate in 1880. 1883 Tsountas Ephorus of Greek Antiquities. In this role he first began "classic" sites, including from 1884 to examine the Acropolis of Athens in 1884 and the Straits of Salamis. After Heinrich Schliemann was passed in 1886, Tsountsas succeeded him as director of excavations at Mycenae. Also, multiple simultaneous excavations revealed several significant results. The 1880-1891 studies conducted in Laconia brought along with other finds, especially the discovery of Mycenaean domed tomb of Vapheio. In 1889/90 he conducted the first systematic excavations in the Cycladic settlements and necropolises of Sifnos, Paros, Syros, Antiparos and Amorgos. Between 1889 and 1903 he dug in Sesklo and Dimini, the important prehistoric settlements in Thessaly. Tsountsas grub here not only, but could by the publication of the results for the first time a significant Neolithic culture on Greek territory prove. Furthermore, he tried after the epoch-making results of the excavations of Schliemann himself and other researchers for the first time a synthesis of the findings on the Mycenaean culture. The resulting work was also for several generations of Greek researchers required reading and reference work. 1904 moved from Tsountsas Antiquities Service to the University of Athens, where he held the archaeological professorship. From 1909 to 1911 he was in succession by Panagiotis Kavvadias Secretary-General of the Archaeological Society at Athens, he also followed again by Panagiotis Kavvadias. In 1924 he became Professor Emeritus, taught after 1926/27, again at the newly founded University of Thessaloniki. He belonged in 1926 to the constituent members of the Academy of Athens.