Lysandros Kaftanzoglou

{{short description|Greek university professor and architect}}

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Lysandros Kaftanzoglou (Greek: Λύσανδρος Καυτανζόγλου, 1811–1885) was a Greek architect[http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500123669 getty.edu] of the 19th century and Chancellor of the National Technical University of Athens.

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He was born in Thessaloniki. During the massacres of the Greek community in 1821 by the Ottomans,[https://www.greece2021.gr/timeline/28-timeline/200-xronia-ellines/713-i-oikogeneia-tou-lysandrou-kaftantzoglou-katafeygei-sti-massalia-meta-ti-sfagi-tis-thessalonikis.html Λύσανδρος Καυτανζόγλου] his family left for Marseille. He later studied architecture in Rome.

He worked in independent Greece and designed buildings in Athens and other cities.

Some of his works include:

• The building of the National Technical University of Athens.
• The old St Andrew church in Patras.
• The old building of Arsakeion, Athens (today houses the Council of State).
• Cathedral Basilica of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
• Saint Irene Church, Athens
• Ophthalmological Hospital, Athens
• St Constantine church, Omonoia, Athens

The Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki is named after him.