Vretos, Ioannis A.

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Name identity
Last name: 
Vretos
Given Name: 
Ioannis
Father's Name: 
A.
Capacity: 
publisger
journalist
Education
Education: 
Law School of the then Othonios University of Athens (never completed his studies)
Professional activity
Profession: 
journalist
publisher
Journalistic activity
Publications/positions: 
Title of publication: 
Omonoia (March 1862-1867)
Position: 
founder - editor
Title of publication: 
Neologos (31 Dec 1866/1 January 1867 – 27 April/9 May 1881)
Position: 
co-publisher
Title of publication: 
Armonia (1864-1868)
Position: 
contributor
Title of publication: 
Byzantis (1856-1871 and 1871-1888)
Position: 
contributor
Title of publication: 
Kairoi (1872-1875, 1883-1885 and 1889-1920)
Position: 
contributor
Title of publication: 
Kathimerini (1887-1888)
Position: 
contributor
Title of publication: 
Encyclopedic Almanac (in Greek, Constantinople, 1901-1917)
Position: 
publisher
Social and Political Activity
Social Organization: 
Social Organisation: 
Masons’ Lodge named “Progress”
Position: 
founding member
Year: 
1863
Social Organisation: 
Thracian Educational Society
Position: 
founding member
Year: 
1872
Published writings
List of works: 
  • Encyclopedia of History and Geography (in Greek) (Constantinople, 1869-1892)
  • Moral Stories (in Greek), Estia, Athens,1925,
  • The good father (in Greek; reader, Constantinople, 1895)
  • Grammar of the mother tongue, (in Greek, Constantinople, 1895),
  • Series of Selected Readings (in Greek), G. Seitanidis publisher, Constantinople 1895
  • Selected readings for use by Public and Private schools for boys and girls alike (in Greek, Constantinople, 1896)
  • Ponson de Terrail, Knights of the Night (translated into Greek, together with Stavros I. Voutyras and Georgios Vafeiadis), Constantinople, 1868).
Bibliography/Sources
Notes: 
  • Andreas Ath. Antonopoulos,Οι Έλληνες της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας και το Ανατολικό Ζήτημα 1866-1881. Η μαρτυρία του ‘Νεολόγου’ της Κωνσταντινούπολης (The Greeks of the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Question 1866-1881. The testimony of Neologos in Constantinople) (in Greek), New Circle of Constantinopoliton,Tsoukatos Publications, Athens 2007;
  • Dimitris Stamatopoulos, Μεταρρύθμιση και Εκκοσμίκευση. Προς μια ανασύνθεση της ιστορίας του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου (Reform and secularisation. Towards a reconstruction of the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (in Greek), Alexandria, Athens, 2003, p. 216;
  • Christina Stamatopoulou-Vasilakou,To Ελληνικό Θέατρο στην Κωνσταντινούπολη τον 19ο αιώνα, τόμος Α΄: Ιστορία, Δραματολόγιο, Θίασοι, Ηθοποιοί, Θέατρα (Greek Theatre in Constantinople in the 19th century, Vol I: History, Plays, Companies, Actors, Theatres (in Greek), New Circle of Constantinopoliton, Athens 1994, p. 48;
  • Dionysios P. Kalogeropoulos, “Vretos, Ioannis A. Great Greek Encyclopedia (in Greek), vol. VI, p. 774.

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