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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON KING'S COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN GREEK SOME DEBTS TO BYZANTINISM An Inaugural Lecture delivered on Monday October 11th 1926 By MARSHALL Koraes Professor of Modern Greek Introductory Remarks by the Chairman The Greek Minister It is with the greatest pleasure that have accepted the kind invita- tion of the Principal of this College to preside at the installation of Professor Marshall in the Chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek History and Literature put under the auspices of the very honoured name of Koraes and to introduce the new occupant of the Chair to you It would be an unpardonable omission from my part if on such an occasion should not mention the name of the late Dr Burrows to the initiative of whom the establishment of the present Chair is mainly due Dr Burrows was for many years the most steady active and helpful friend of Greece and his memory will always remain respected and cherished among Greeks should be responsible for another serious omission if did not take this opportunity of expressing my best appreciation of Principal Barker's efforts in overcoming some diffi- culties which have arisen with regard to the Chair and in succeeding in maintaining it in agreement with the Senate and the Greek Committee as an important intellectual link between Great Britain and Greece Koraes after whom the Chair is named was great Greek scholar as well as great Greek patriot He lived in Paris in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first of the nineteenth He published there commenting on and translating them many of the Greek classic authors and those editions nearly one and half centuries old are still to be consulted with profit and pleasure He was at the same time the writer of mass of letters containing extremely valuable advice to his compatriots for their political education from which we Greeks may continually derive the greatest profit for our own political conduct and which contain the