page_title: Theodoros Natsinas
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Theodoros Natsinas / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Certificate from The Ecumenical Patriarchate for the ability of Theodoros Natsinas to Direct Hellenic (Greek) College.
context_page_description: Theodoros Natsinas was a Greek teacher. He was born in Siatista, then part of the Ottoman Empire, now in Greece.
context_section_description: He studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Athens, where he received his degree. After the completion of his studies in 1898, he taught at secondary schools in Argos and Spetses. In 1899, the University of Athens proposed to the Greek Government that he should be posted as a teacher at Kayseri in Turkey on a "national" mission to support the local Greek population. From 1903 to 1907 he taught at Constantinople.
  At 1907 he served as director of a school in Siatista and took part in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. He was arrested by the Ottoman authorities and taken to nearby city of Lapsista in West Macedonia. He was released after the intervention of the Greek Bishop of Sisanion and Siatista.
  In the interwar years, after West Macedonia became part of Greece, he taught in Kozani, founded the first Agricultural Cooperative there, and helped to set up the first Scouts team in West Macedonia. In 1918 he was appointed general Superintendent of Secondary Education of Greece.
  In politics he was a supporter of the Liberal Party of Eleftherios Venizelos.
caption: Certification by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1905
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