Prime Minister Antonis Samaras sent his condolences for Professor Emmanuel Kriaras’ loss. He called the late philologist “an emblematic personality of the scientific and public life of the country with great offer to Greece’s cultural life.”

“Emmanuel Kriaras marked with his presence and actions two generations of political and intellectual struggles, teaching ethos and respect to the values of humanity,” Mr. Samaras stressed.

Emmanuel Kriaras, lexicographer and philologist, emeritus professor of the School of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, died on Friday, August 22 in his home in Thessaloniki at the age of 108 of a heart attack.