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Chrysos Evelpidis | |
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| Born | 1895  |
| Died | 29 April 1971 |
| Occupations | University teacher, agriculturist, jurist, minister |
Chrysos Evelpidis (Greek: Χρυσός Ευελπίδης, 1895 – April 29, 1971)[citation needed] was a Greek agronomist, professor, member of the parliament and minister.[citation needed]
He was born in Istanbul in 1895 and studied at the Greek Chatzichristou High School.[citation needed] He studied agronomy and engineering at the University of Montpellier in France and political science at the University of Athens.[citation needed] He began his career as prefectural agronomist at the Achaea–Elis Prefecture in 1917.[citation needed] From 1924 until 1951, he taught at Agrarian Law and Policy at Panteion University and then Agricultural Economics at the Higher School of Agriculture in Athens.[citation needed] From 1944 until 1945, he was Rector of the Panteion University and then emeritus professor.[citation needed] During the period from 1964 till 1965, he was dean at the Agricultural University of Athens.[citation needed] He was president of the Agricultural Economist Company.[citation needed] He traveled to Asia with Nikos Kazantzakis. He was an elected member of the parliament representing Evros Prefecture with the Liberal Party in 1933 and the EPEK party in 1951.[citation needed] He served as a general secretary (1924-1927) and later as Minister of Agriculture in the Themistoklis Sofoulis government from 22 November 1945 until 29 March 1946.[citation needed] Then he served as Minister of Finance in the Nikolaos Plastiras government from the 27 October 1951 to 11 October 1952, when the government resigned.[citation needed] He dealt with literature, writing under the pseudonym Chr. Esperas. In 1957, he was honored with a state literary prize (second prize for essay) for the essay "Culture and civilization".[citation needed] He also published many articles and studies and wrote books.
From 1935 until 1967, he was publisher of the magazine ‘Rural Economy’.[citation needed] He died on 29 April 1971. His library, donated to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki by his widow, currently includes 8639 volumes.