Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos

Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos Παναγιώτης Αναγνωστόπουλος
Born	around 1790 Andritsaina, (now Greece)
Died	1854 Athens, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Occupation	Greek revolutionary leader

Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos (Greek: Παναγιώτης Αναγνωστόπουλος, 1790-1854) was a Greek revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence and a member of Filiki Eteria, the secret organization whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state.

He was born in Andritsaina around 1790 and was part of a poor family. In 1818 emigrated with his family to Smyrna (now Izmir) while he attended a school in Constantinople (now Istanbul). He then relocated to Odessa where he worked at the drapery shop of Athanassios Sekeris, a wealthy Greek of Constantinople. There he met Nikolaos Skoufas with whom he was initiated into Filiki Eteria.

He died in 1854 in Athens from cholera, transmitted from an English-French soldier. In 1884, he was honoured with a central road in Kolonaki.

References

Details about his life are to be found in a document by the Public Historical Library of Andritsaina (bilingual Greek-English)