Long-time Benaki Museum director Angelos Delivorrias died on Tuesday at the age of 81.
An entry on the Academy of Athens’ website reads:
Delivorrias “… was born in Athens in 1937. He studied Archaeology and History of the Art at the Universities of Thessaloniki and Athens and continued his studies in Germany at the University of Freiburg. During the period 1965-1969 he served as Ephor at the Greek Archaeological Service. He completed his postgraduate studies at Tübingen, where he obtained his doctorate in 1972. In 1972-1973 he attended courses at the Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He was appointed Director of the Benaki Museum in 1973 and remained in the same position until 2015. In 1992 he was elected Professor of History of the Art at the University of Athens, where he taught until 2005.”
