Word: gennadius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor, the Agora will be given back to Greece, stripped of its 35 feet of debris, for a public park. Dr. Capps also formally opened the Gennadium, a new marble library built by the Carnegie Foundation to house historical documents given to the American School by H. E. Joannes Gennadius, wealthy Attic statesman...
...American Archeological School, founded in Athens in 1882, for the study and restoration of ancient Greek buildings, has become the guardian of the library of Joannes Gennadius, long the Greek Minister to London, who has assembled an unrivaled collection of books concerning Greece during the Turkish occupation (about 1460 to 1821-least known period of Greek history). The library will be housed at Athens in a building to be known as the "Gennadeion." It contains among its treasures the valuable works of Sathas, Philadelpheus, Kampouroglos...
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