Dimitrios Sarros

• Name — Dimitrios Sarros • Native Name — Δημήτριος Σάρρος • Born — c. 1869/70 • Died — c. 1937 • Birthplace — Vitsa, Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) • Place of death — Athens, Kingdom of Greece • Allegiance — Kingdom of Greece • Branch — Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg HMC • Battles — Macedonian Struggle • Education — Zosimaia School University of Athens • Other Work — Scholar Teacher Writer Educational advisor

Sarros was born in 1869 or 1870 in Vitsa of Zagori. He graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina and later from the Philosophical School of the University of Athens. He initially was appointed as a teacher to a school of Piraeus (1897). He later taught in Larnaca and in the Pancyprian Gymnasium of Nicosia. In 1902 he was appointed as a teacher to Serres and Alexandroupoli, where he got involved with the Macedonian Committee and became an active member of the Macedonian Struggle. Later, he served as a teacher in the Phanar Greek Orthodox College, the Joachimio Greek Girls' School of Constantinople and in Thessaloniki. He was also a member of the Greek Philological Society of Constantinople (Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος) and contributed as a judge and rapporteur in literary and folklore competitions of the philological magazine of the Society. At the same time, he developed nationalistic actions, as in 1912 he organized the first congress of teachers of the enslaved Hellenism of Asia Minor and attended a Great National Assembly, thus being expelled and imprisoned by the Ottoman authorities. After the Asia Minor Catastrophe, he taught in Corfu and later in Kallithea. In 1926 he became an educational advisor of the Greek Ministry of Religious Affairs and Education until 1935.