ΜΕΡΙΚΕΣ ΣΚΕΨΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΖΩΗ, ΤΟ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΠΟΙΚΙΛΗ ΔΡΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ ΣΙΓΑΛΑ

Abstract

The archives of Antonios Sigalas located in the Jesuit Library and Archives of Greece were recently classified and a conference was organized in his honor, accompanied by an exhibition of representative documents. In this article a first valuation is attempted about the life and activity –mainly research and teatching– of Antonios Sigalas, one of the first professors of the University of Thessaloniki: The persons with whom he corre¬sponds are among the most important in the field of Letters, while his crucial role in the establishment and operation of the Society of Mace¬donian Studies, the journal Makedonika, his initiative for the rescue and study of archival and folklore material of the of Macedonia, his national and social action during the critical years of the German occupation, etc. A significant part of Sigalas’ archive concerns his unfair removal, for political reasons, from the University of Thessaloniki in 1945-1946 and his futile efforts to regain his university role.