Nikolaos Katalanos
Greek educator, scholar, journalist.
Nikolaos Katalanos lived in Cyprus for about 20 years and developed a varied and intense activity with dominant involvement in the Union Movement. Maniatis by origin, was born in 1855 in the village of Nomitsi in the municipality of Lefktra in the prefecture of Laconia (Peloponnisos) and died on May 5, 1934 in Athens.
Pancyprion High School
Nikolaos Catalanos studied at the Evangelical School of Smyrna and then studied mathematics and physics at the National University of Athens.
His intense and direct involvement in Cypriot affairs began in 1893, when he was appointed a teacher at the Pancyprion High School in Nicosia where, however, he served for only a few years under the high school principal Ioannis Dellios.
He left the Pancyprion High School in 1896 after a disagreement with the new high school principal Michael Volonakis.
However, the short time of his service as a teacher of the Pangyprion High School, the only high school in Nicosia, was enough to make him stand out due to the brilliance of his teaching, but also to gain enemies due to his harsh pedagogical methods.
Proud, stubborn, obsessive and rigid himself, from the first years of his stay in Cyprus he faced problems with the English rulers of the island.
It is said that the main reason for his withdrawal from the Pancyprion High School and education in general, in 1896, was that he stubbornly refused to attend an event in honor of the then British High Commissioner Sir Walter Sendall.
Politics & Media
After leaving education, he became more actively involved in politics and, at the same time, devoted himself to journalism.
In addition, he developed, parallel to the national, social activity as well as union action (in 1897 he succeeded Achilleas Liasidis in the presidency of the “Love of the People” union).
He also taught in organized and regular night national and educational courses, which made him a kind of popular teacher.
In particular in the field of journalism, Katalanos took over in 1897 the management of the weekly newspaper Evagoras, while he also collaborated in the publication of the newspaper Flag of Cyprus (Simaia tis Kyprou). He edited the newspaper Evagoras from 1897 to 1905. Immediately after, from 1906, he published the newspaper Kypriakos Phylax. The newspaper was published by Catalanos until 1921, then it was published under the name Neos Kypriakos Phylax by K.A. Konstantinidis and I.Markidis.
In the newspapers in which he worked, Katalanos was also the main editor, in which he published many political, historical and educational articles.
Anorthosis Famagusta
Katalanos was also a member of the “Anorthosis” association of Famagusta, of which he was also the first honorary president (he was elected on February 5, 1911, five days after the establishment of the association).
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