{"id":811,"date":"2017-04-11T19:36:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/?p=811"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:28:51","slug":"demetrios-callimachos-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/demetrios-callimachos-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Demetrios Callimachos Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-811\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-811-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-811-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-811-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-810 size-full\" title=\"Demetrios Callimachos, 1947\" src=\"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Callimachos-Lettters-600X400.png\" alt=\"Demetrios Callimachos, 1947\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Callimachos-Lettters-600X400.png 600w, https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Callimachos-Lettters-600X400-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Callimachos-Lettters-600X400-272x182.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Demetrios Callimachos, a journalist, priest, and author, was born in Madytos (present-day Eceabat), Turkey. He was educated in Istanbul, Smyrna, and Athens, and came to the United States in 1914. He was active in many Greek and Greek American associations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Olga, nee Andreou, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1885. She obtained her teacher\u2019s diploma from Athens University in Greece. Came to New York from Cairo with her husband in 1914. Studied at Moravian College in 1923 and 1924 as a special student and also took different courses at Lehigh, Rutgers and Columbia Universities. Olga and Demetrios were married in 1908.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-811-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-811-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>[tabs]<\/p>\n<p>[tabh]<br \/>\n[tab id=\"letter-sets0\" class=\"active\"][icon image=\"fa-pencil-square-o\"] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Letters<\/span>[\/tab]<br \/>\n[\/tabh]<br \/>\n[tabc]<br \/>\n[tabrow id=\"letter-sets0\" class=\"active\"]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/single-letters\/demetrios-callimachos-letters-october-15-1893\">Letter to Demetrios Callimachos from Helen, October 15, 1893<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/single-letters\/demetrios-callimachos-letters-august-6-1900\/\">Letter to Demetrios Callimachos from R. Orphanidis, August 6, 1900<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/single-letters\/demetrios-callimachos-letters-july-3-1909\/\">Letter to Olga Callimachos from Callirroi and Helen, July 3, 1909<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/single-letters\/demetrios-callimachos-letters-march-7-1925\">Letter to Olga Callimachos from Despoina Konstantinou, March 7, 1925<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/single-letters\/index.php\/demetrios-callimachos-letters-march-15-1959\/\">Letter to Olga Callimachos from Helen, March 15, 1959<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/tabrow]<br \/>\n[\/tabc]<br \/>\n[\/tabs]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-811-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-811-1\" ><div id=\"pgc-811-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-811-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_bwp_gallery 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