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Jan 21, 1896 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Died on 13 Apr 1983 (aged 87)
Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist
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About Theodore Stephanides
- Theodore Stephanides (21 January 1896, Bombay, British Raj – 13 April 1983, Kilburn, London) was a Greek-British poet, author, translator, doctor, naturalist and scientist.
- He is best remembered as the friend and mentor of the famous naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, having appeared in such books as My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, The Garden of the Gods and Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durrell, Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell, or The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller. A polymath, Stephanides was respected as a scientist and doctor, and acclaimed as a poet in the English language.
- He also translated a sizeable body of Greek poetry into English, notably a significant body of work by Greek poet Kostis Palamas and the Greek near-epic work Erotocritos.Stephanides was a noted biologist who has four species named after him.
- Three of them, Cytherois stephanidesi, Thermocyclops stephanidesi and Schizopera stephanidesi, are microscopic water organisms discovered by Stephanides in 1938, and the fourth is Arctodiaptomus stephanidesi, a crustacean (copepod), described as Diaptomus stephanidesi by Otto Pesta in 1935.Stephanides wrote A Survey of the Freshwater Biology of Corfu and of Certain Other Regions of Greece (1948), a definitive biological treatise on the freshwater life in Corfu, which is still cited today.
- His autobiographical account of the Battle of Crete, Climax in Crete (1946), and his half-fictional account of Corfu and the Ionian Islands, Island Trails (1973), were widely read in the past, but are now out of print.
