G.K. Katsimbalis

Georgios Katsimbalis, a Greek nationalist, intellectual, publisher and writer, the driving force behind the ‘generation of the 1930s’ and the ‘patriarch’ of modern Greek literary scholarship, known as the ‘Colossus of Marousi’, after Henry Miller’s novel of the same name, was born in 1899 in Athens, where he died on 25 June 1978. He was buried in the First Cemetery of Athens.
In 1939, he married Aspasia Sakorrafou, daughter of Menelaos Sakorrafou, a professor at the University of Athens; however, they had no children and he had one adopted son, Giorgos Katsimbalis.