Dionysios ZAKYTHINOS Historian; (b. Lixouri, Kefalonia 15 December 1905 – d. Athens, 18 January 1993)

Director of the Greek State Archives in Athens (1937–1946); university professor: University of Athens, History of Byzantium: (1939–1970); The Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens; founder and director of the Byzantine Research Institute in Athens (1960–1975)

Membership of SASA: Department of Historical Sciences; foreign member from 16 December 1971

Obituary: God. / SANU 100 (1994) 497-499 (B. Ferjančić)