Platon Drakoulis

Platon Eustathios Drakoulis or Drakoules (Greek: Πλάτων Δρακούλης; 1858 – 1934 or 1942)[1][note 1] was a Greek socialist politician. Drakoulis, once a lecturer at Oxford University, was one of the pioneers of the socialist labour movement in Greece. An energetic agitator and the most prominent figure in the nascent socialist movement, Drakoulis founded the Workers League of Greece. In August 1910, he was one of ten socialists elected to the national parliament and cooperated with the political party of Eleftherios Venizelos.[2] He supported Greece's war efforts during the first world war.[3] He was a founder of the Greek Anti-Carnivore society and married English humanitarian and animal rights campaigner Alice Marie Lambe, in 1907.[4]

Platon Drakoulis
Born	1858 Ithaca
Died	1934 (aged 75–76) or 1942 (aged 83–84) United Kingdom
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	University of Oxford National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Occupation	Professor, journalist, politician
Spouse(s)	Alice Marie Lambe ​ (m. 1907)​

Selected publications

• Study of the French Revolution (1890)
• Specimen for the Worker: The Foundations of Socialism (1893)
• Light Insider (1894)
• Greek Language and Literature (1897)
• Emancipation of Women (1912)

Notes

1. Sources are conflicting on Drakoulis' date of death.

References

1. Benaroya, Abraham (2013-01-21), "The socialist frenzy of two decades", Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States : Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945: Texts and Commentaries, volume III/1, Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945, Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 444–449, ISBN 978-615-5211-93-5, retrieved 2020-06-21
2. Glasier, J. Bruce. The I.L.P. and Socialist Year Book: A Guide Book to the Labour and Socialist Movement at Home and Abroad. Manchester [England]: Independent Labour Party, 1911. p. 84
3. (in Greek) Γεώργιος Β. Λεονταρίτης (1979), Το ελληνικό σοσιαλιστικό κίνημα κατά τον Πρώτο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο [=transl. of George B. Leon: The Greek Socialist movement and the First World War, 1976]. Αθήνα: Εξάντας, p. 63. ISBN 960-256-393-1.
4. "Drakoules [née Lambe; other married name Lewis], Alice Marie (c. 1850–1933), humanitarian and campaigner for animal welfare". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001 (inactive 2021-01-19). Retrieved 2020-06-27.CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2021 (link)

External links

• D. [Drakoules], "Greece and Social-Democracy", Justice, 6 March 1897, p. 4.
• Platon E. Drakoules, “The End of Venizelism”, Justice, 2 December 1920, p. 2.