IAKOVOS THOMOPOULOS
Doctor, philosopher and author.
He was born in 1885, in Kefallinia, and he died in 1941, in Athens.
Schliemann’s discoveries in Mycenae and Troia, while Thomopoulos was studying Medicine at the University of Athens, had deeply influenced him and the Ancient World drew his attention.
He spoke Arvanitika (Αρβανίτικα), maybe due to his roots, and he made a huge effort to interpret ancestral texts through this language, before Michael Ventris and John Chadwick did so.
He had been criticized, because his thesis expressed in his book Pelasgika (Πελασγικά), published in 1912, was not supported by documents and because it insisted on the Greek origin of almost everything.
The analysis of the ancestral texts, as this can be found in the book Pelasgika (Πελασγικά), was carefully implemented.
This project may be “each researcher’s gospel” during the study of the ancestral texts, even though there were some objections about the reading of the texts through Arvanitika (Αρβανίτικα).