I. Sareyannis

I. A. Saregiannis, a plant pathologist, was born in Egypt (Alexandria) in 1898 — from where he left in 1915 to study in Europe (France), returning once or twice, in 1919–20 and 1929, until he settled permanently in Greece in 1930. He had known Cavafy personally since 1915 and always approached or studied this much-discussed man with an admiration that remained unbroken throughout his life.