{{Infobox Soldier | name = Dimitrios Sarros | native_name = Δημήτριος Σάρρος | image = Dimitrios Sarros.jpg | image_size = 200 | caption = A portrait of Dimitrios Sarros. | birth_date = c. 1869/70 | death_date = c. 1937 | birth_place = [[Vitsa]], [[Janina Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (now [[Greece]]) | death_place = [[Athens]], [[Kingdom of Greece]] | allegiance = {{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]] | branch = {{flagicon image|Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg}} [[Hellenic Macedonian Committee|HMC]] | battles = [[Macedonian Struggle]] | alma_mater = [[Zosimaia School]]<br>[[University of Athens]] | other_work = Scholar<br>Teacher<br>Writer<br>Educational advisor }} '''Dimitrios Μ. Sarros''' ({{langx|el|Δημήτριος Σάρρος}}; 1869/70-1937) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] scholar, teacher, soldier and writer of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
== Biography == Sarros was born in 1869<ref name=grandlodge>[http://www.grandlodge.gr/sarros-dimitrios-w-30800.html Σάρρος Δημήτριος], grandlodge</ref> or 1870 in [[Vitsa]] of [[Zagori]].<ref name=izagori>[https://izagori.gr/people/biographies/470-%CE%B4%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%83-%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83-1870-1937.html ΣΑΡΡΟΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ (1870 - 1937)], ΟΙ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ, izagori.gr</ref><ref name=plagou>{{cite book |last=Πλάγου |first=Αγγελική |year=2016 |title=Περιφέρεια Ηπείρου: Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Ιωαννίνων: Όπου η Ομορφιά Περισσεύει |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMZlDQAAQBAJ&q=%CE%A3%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AE%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82&pg=PT584 |location= |publisher=AKAKIA Publications |page= |isbn=978-1911352358 |author-link=}}</ref> He graduated from the [[Zosimaia School]] of [[Ioannina]] and later from the ''Philosophical School'' of the [[University of Athens]].<ref name=grandlodge /><ref name=izagori /><ref name=plagou /> He initially was appointed as a teacher to a school of [[Piraeus]] (1897).<ref name=grandlodge /><ref name=izagori /> He later taught in [[Larnaca]] and in the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] of [[Nicosia]].<ref name=grandlodge /> In 1902 he was appointed as a teacher to [[Serres]] and [[Alexandroupoli]], where he got involved with the [[Macedonian Committee]] and became an active member of the [[Macedonian Struggle]].<ref name=grandlodge /><ref name=izagori /> Later, he served as a teacher in the [[Phanar Greek Orthodox College]], the ''Joachimio Greek Girls' School of Constantinople'' and in [[Thessaloniki]].<ref name=izagori /><ref name=plagou /> He was also a member of the ''Greek Philological Society of Constantinople'' (''Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος'') and contributed as a judge and rapporteur in literary and folklore competitions of the philological magazine of the Society.<ref name=izagori /> At the same time, he developed nationalistic actions, as in 1912 he organized the first congress of teachers of the enslaved Hellenism of [[Asia Minor]] and attended a ''Great National Assembly'', thus being expelled and imprisoned by the [[Ottoman law|Ottoman authorities]].<ref name=izagori /> After the [[Asia Minor Catastrophe]], he taught in [[Corfu]] and later in [[Kallithea]].<ref name=plagou /> In 1926 he became an educational advisor of the [[Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (Greece)|Greek Ministry of Religious Affairs and Education]] until 1935.<ref name=grandlodge /><ref name=plagou />
== Selected writings == *[https://www.persee.fr/doc/reg_0035-2039_1922_num_35_163_7715_t1_0458_0000_3 Démétrios M. Sarros. Διορθωτικὰ εἰς Εὐριπίδην Ἰφιγένεια ή ἐν Ταύροις], original 1920, [[Istanbul|Constantinople]] *[https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/b/3/2/metadata-01-0000537.tkl Παρατηρήσεις εις το Ηπειρωτικόν γλωσσάριον του Π. Αραβαντινού], 1920, Constantinople *[http://digital.lib.auth.gr/record/67669?ln=el Περί των εν Ηπείρω Μακεδονία και Θράκη συνθηματικών γλωσσών], 1923, [[Athens]] *[http://retsasbooks.gr/index.php?instance=book&id=6237 Πώς είδε και πώς ετραγούδησεν ο Λόρδος Βύρων την Ήπειρον], 1935, Athens
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