Eustathios Konstantinides

Eustathios Konstantinides was a Cypriot amateur archaeologist, philologist, school teacher and politician.

Education and academic career

Konstantinides studied philology abroad and returned to Cyprus in 1880. In 1883 he became the director of all the schools in Nicosia. From 1893 to 1909 he was a professor of philology at the Pancyprian Gymnasium. From 1909 until 1913 he taught classes on archaeology. Additionally, he was president of "Kypriakos Sillogos", he came a member of the Committee of the Cyprus Museum at its inception in 1882 and he acted as Curator of Antiquities from 1889 to 1912. He conducted excavations at Idalion in 1908 and at a Bronze Age cemetery in Kythrea in 1909. He donated a small collection of Late Bronze Age cylinder seals to the Cyprus Museum.

Political career

After his return to Cyprus in 1880 he was also involved in politics, in 1883 he run for parliament in the district of Nicosia in the first parliamentarian elections that took place in Cyprus and became part of the first Legislative Council that was established by the British. He served until 1891.

Personal life

His brother Pascal Constantinides was a member of the Committee of the Cyprus Museum and a member of the Legislative Council.

Publications

Konstantinides, E.. Helmets. The Owl. Science, Literature and Art, 4, 29-32.
Konstantinides E. Ecclesiastical Studies in Cyprus, A New Bishop from Carpasia, The Owl. Science, Literature and Art.
Konstantinides, E.. ᾽Ι(ν) τύχαι ἀζαταῖ. The Journal of Cypriote Studies, 23-24.
Konstantinides, E. Kypros. Memnon, Zeitschrift für die Kunst- und Kultur-Geschichte des Alten Orients, 1, 245-246.