Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameEugène Michel (Michel) Antoniadi
Birth10 Mar 1870, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
Death1944, Paris, France
MemoPresumably Boulogne-Boullaincourt.
OccupationAstronomer and chess champion.
Note 1Or Antoniadis. In 1993 Richard McKim wrote two biographical papers re E-M Antoniadi for the Journal of the British Astronomical Association (translated for the Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France).
Note 2In 1909 he directed the Mars Section of the British Astronomical Association. He had a parallel career as a chess champion.
Note 3“Astronomically, Antoniadi's greatest achievement was his observational work that showed Percival Lowell's martian canals to be figments of the imagination.”
Note 4According to Richard McKim, he had a brother Dorotheos.
FatherMichel Antoniadi (?-?)
MotherPhotini Prassino (?-?)
Marriage9 Jun 1902, Paris, France
SpouseCatherine (Theodore) Sevastopoulos, 5C2R
Birth21 Feb 1879, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
Death7 Oct 1952, Clichy, 92000, France
Burial12 Nov 1952, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
Note 1A newspaper account of her wedding (1902) describes her family as one of the ‘plus celèbre’ of the Paris Greek community.
Note 2She receieved French nationality in 1927 giving her date of birth as 9 Feb 1879 (Orthodox calendar discrepancy?)
Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Galati, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Negroponte, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Ralli (Spechlis), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Scaramanga, Sevastopoulos, Vlasto, Vouro
FatherTheodore (Nicholas) Sevastopoulos (1838-1918)
MotherAngeliki (Ambrouzis) Mavrogordato (1848-1917)