EVANGELINUS APOSTOLIDES SOPHOCLES: the Ascetic of Harvard College Published in The National Herald, January 10-16, 2015 ssue Authored by Steve Frangos ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ CHICAGO.  Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles is without question the most mysterious of all the notable Greeks who sojourned to North America in the Nineteenth Century.  The second professor of Greek at Harvard College, this man's real name, his personal history and much else about him remains to this day virtually unknown.  While recognized by his contemporaries as "a scholar of extraordinary attainments," this "eccentric, cynical, soft-hearted, monk-like scholar" never graduated from any known institution and was only the recipient of honorary degrees. Nevert...