Georgios Drossinis [SEP] place of birth
Georgios Drossinis
Georgios Drosinis (; 9 December 1859 – 3 January 1951) was a Greek author and poet of the New Athenian School (Greek literary Generation of the 1880s), a scholar and an editor.
Biography.
Georgios Drossinis was born and raised in Athens, but he came from a family from Mesolonghi which had fought in the celebrated year-long siege of the city by the Ottomans during the Greek War of Independence. He studied Philology in Athens and in Germany, but did not complete his studies.
: poetry turns to demotic.
The literary 'Generation of 1880', also called the New Athenian School, made their debut with the publication in 1880 of the first collections of poetry from Georgios Drossinis and . In contrast to the First Athenian School poetry of Soutsos and his contemporaries, who had used increasingly archaic "katharevousa", the new work was largely in demotic; and the poems of Drossinis' next collection, "Idylls" (1884), are almost all on themes from folklore, informed by the "