All about Zakynthos

Georgios Ventotis was a printer in Venice and Vienna, publisher of the first Greek newspaper, friend and collaborator of King Feraios and author of Greek educational books,

was born in Zakynthos in the district of Agios Nikolaos of the Elders in 1756.

After working for three years in Venice as a printer and proofreader at the Glyki printing house, and a short stay in Budapest, where he worked as a teacher of French and Italian for the Greek community there, he settled in Vienna in 1781.

There he worked in the newly established printing house Vaummeister as a printer, translator, editor and proofreader of Greek books, from 1782 to 1790.

He then left and founded the first Greek printing house in Austria under the name of Elliniki typografia G. Ventoti.