George Hourmouziadis (1932-2013) was distinguished for his academic and scientific work, especially in the fields of history, archaeology and museology. Between 1961 and 1964 he taught in secondary education and in 1965 he was appointed superintendent of antiquities of Thessaly. In 1973 he was awarded a doctorate from the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while from 1976 to 1978 he studied European history in Heidelberg with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt organization. In 1981 he was elected professor of prehistoric archaeology at the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, dean in 1983 and vice-rector in 1985 at the same university. He was a Member of the Parliament for Greece’s Communist Party in the 1st Thessaloniki constituency.
He was involved in the research of the Neolithic period, conducting excavations in prehistoric settlements in Thessaly and Macedonia, and has linked his name to the excavations at the lake settlement of Dispilio. He wrote 5 books and developed a rich body of articles, while at the same time he was a member of many European Archaeological Institutes. Hourmouziadis was a pioneer in the dissemination of the theoretical movements of New Archaeology in Greece and publisher of the journals Anthropologika (1978-1982), Gordon (1991-1995) and Anaskamma (2008-2012).