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Roussel, Louis
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Louis Roussel (1881-1971) was a student of Psichari and a member of the École française d’Athènes, where he worked until 1925. That same year he was appointed professor of Greek Letters at the University of Montpellier (1925-1953). He published the journal Libre (1922-1936), while in 1922 he published a textbook of Modern Greek grammar in Paris (France). He translated poems of Cavafy into French and wrote critical essays on the poet’s work.
Rodocanachi, Theodore C.
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Theodoros Rodocanachi was born in Liverpool (England) in 1871. His father was Konstantinos Rodocanachi and his mother was Argyro Sechiari. In 1923 he married Eleni Polymeri. He died in Alexandria (Egypt), where he had made his home, in 1947.
Rodocanachi, John P.
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Ioannis (John) Rodocanachi was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1866. His father, Pandias M. Rodocanachi, was active in the trading business, and his mother Kleopatra, came from the Synadinos family. He himself was a friend of C. P. Cavafy, but left Alexandria at a young age to settle in Liverpool (England), where he finished his studies and started working.
Robinson & Thompson
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Photographers in Liverpool and in Birkenhead (England) during the period 1869-1896.
Reuters
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Retian Apkar
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Apkar Retian, an Armenian, was one of the most important photographers in Egypt during the first half of the 20th century. He was active from the 1920s to the 1960s; during this time, he was very productive and he managed to establish himself as an artist photographer. He studied next to Aram Alban, later (by the mid-1920s) taking over his photographic studio and preserving the old name till the early 1940s.