Goulimis was born in
Athens, on 13 July 1886, and studied law in Athens, Paris, London, Rome and Berlin where he obtained his PhD. He practised law in Athens and was, for some time, legal advisor to the British Embassy in Athens (receiving the
OBE in 1962). In 1945 he was a member of the Greek delegation to
San Francisco for the
United Nations Conference on International Organization that led to the formation of the
United Nations. During
World War II, when in South Africa, Goulimis became interested in
botany. Upon his return to Greece in 1945 and until his death on 20 May 1963, he visited many regions of Greece in search of plants. His specimens are kept separate at the
Goulandris Museum of Natural History in Kifissia (ATH). He authored
Wild Flowers of Greece, and other texts. He was the grandfather of Constantine Goulimis, founder of
Greycon and grandson of another Constantine Goulimis, who fought in the siege of
Missolonghi during the
Greek War of Independence and later became a lawyer. In 2019 the Bank of Greece issued a commemorative €5 coin depicting the tulipa goulimyi. == Selected publications ==