Leonidas Varouxis

Who was Leonidas Varouxis?

Leonidas Varouxis was a Greek journalist and a politician. The Varouxises was a key element inf the family Spilotopoulos from Dimitsana, and participated the Greek War of Independence of 1921.

Varouxis was born in Pyrgos and was descended from a family of journalists. In 1892, he ran the weekly paper Avgi. He was a brother of Konstantinos Varouxis and was employed as a journalist in the newspaper Akropolis in the capital city of Athens. He ran the first daily newspaper in Pyrgos Patris in 1902, he was councilled in the spiritual regeneration of his topic. He was taught as a journalist and a publisher of Gavriilidis of Akropolis. In 1917, in newspapers of the period, he wrote about the voting of the electorate area of Ilia. Area in which he conjectured that he knew in 1929, along with the sources which drew up from Ilia's newspapers He called off his publishing on the newspaper in which he made a new circulation by his nephew in 1955.

Varouxis died in 1951.