His collection of books, unique in the Greek context, includes over 1,000 volumes, primarily in languages other than Greek, covering research in fishing and ichthyology, as well as rare and old books on these subjects. It is accompanied by significant archival material.
The fishing library of Dr Konstantinos Laskaridis
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Biography
Konstantinos Laskaridis (1918-2008), a hydrobiologist and ichthyologist, was the founder of the “Kaiti Laskaridis Library,” a precursor to the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation. He was born in Iran in 1918, and his family settled in Greece in 1925. He studied hydrobiology, ichthyology, and fishing technology at the University of Kiel. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Limnology of the “Emperor Wilhelm Society” (now the Max Planck Institute), where he obtained his PhD in Natural Sciences in 1942.
Laskaridis worked for 13 years in the Greek public sector. He then served as a fisheries advisor at the United Nations and at the American company Arthur D. Little (Boston). Concurrently, in the commercial sector, where he remained active until his death, he developed pioneering work in fishing vessels with refrigeration and later in deep-sea fishing vessels.
In 1946, he married Kaiti Protopappa. In 1993, following her death, he established the “Kaiti Laskaridis Library” in her memory in Neo Faliro. They had two sons, Panos, founder and President of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, and Thanasis, who are involved in shipping and commercial enterprises.