Irakleios Fyssentzidis (Héraclios Fyssen) (1904-1982) was born in Cairo (Egypt). He was among the founders of the Argo journal (published between 1923 and 1927), an initiative of the “Hellenic Youth Union”. He was educated in Paris (France), where he remained and became professionally active in the field of new technologies. In 1979 he founded the “Fondation Fyssen”, with the aim to promote scientific research in the fields of social anthropology, archaeology, neurobiology etc.