Stamatios D. Krinos

Stamatios D. Krinos (Greek: Σταμάτιος Δ. Κρίνος; 1815 - January 25, 1886) was an author, chemist, pharmacist, botanist, and professor. He was one of the first Greek pharmacists to study pharmacology under Xaver Landerer and Alexandros Venizelos before the founding of the University of Athens. He opened one of the first pharmacies in Greece. He influenced Greek pharmacology in the 19th century during the Modern Scientific revolution. He did extensive research on Storax and wrote about the natural resin. He published a pharmaceutical magazine known as Asklepios in the late 1850s.

Stamatios was born in Constantinople. He traveled to Athens in his early twenties to study pharmacology. He was influenced by his brother Athanasios who was also a pharmacist. After his studies, he briefly opened a pharmacy in Athens. Stamatios wanted to become a professor at the newly founded university. He traveled to Pisa, Italy for two years and studied botany and other disciplines related to pharmacology at the University of Pisa. He also traveled to Paris and studied at the University of Paris from 1843-1846. Georgios Zavitsanos followed in his footsteps. Zavitsanos also studied pharmacology at the University of Paris in the 1850s. By 1846, Krinos was back in Greece and became a professor at the University of Athens. He helped organize Greek pharmacology with Xaver Landerer and Georgios Zavitsanos. He was a member of the Medical Congress, National Industry Committee, sisterhood of the hospital philanthropy Elpis, and the Central Committee for the Universal Exhibition. He published a useful book on the scientific identification of ancient Greek plants through the names of the people in places and times and their usefulness in the etymology and lexicography of the Greek language. He died on January 25, 1896, in Athens he was about 71 years old.