Greek man of letters, poet and statesman
Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
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Rangavis in 1869
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Born
| Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
(
1809-12-27
)
27 December 1809
Constantinople
,
Ottoman Empire
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Died
| 28 June 1892
(1892-06-28)
(aged 82)
Athens
,
Greece
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Occupation
| Writer, Statesman
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Nationality
| Greek
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Period
| 19th century
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Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
or
Alexander Rizos Rakgabis
[1]
(
Greek
:
?λ?ξανδρο? ??ζο? ?αγκαβ??
;
French
:
Alexandre Rizos Rangabe
; 27 December 1809 – 28 June 1892), was a
Greek
man of letters
, poet and
statesman
.
Early life
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He was born in
Constantinople
to a
Greek
Phanariot
family. He was educated at
Odessa
and the military school at
Munich
. Having served as an officer of artillery in the
Bavarian army
, he returned to Greece, where he held several high educational and administrative appointments. He subsequently became ambassador to Washington, D.C. (1867), Paris (1868), and Berlin (1874?1886), and was one of the Greek plenipotentiaries at the
Congress of Berlin
in 1878.
Literary work
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He was the chief representative of a school of literary men, known as the
First Athenian School
, whose object was to restore as far as possible the ancient classical language. He was also a founding member of the
Archaeological Society of Athens
.
[2]
Of his various works,
Hellenic Antiquities
(1842?1855, of great value for epigraphical purposes),
Archaeologia
(1865?1866), an illustrated
Archaeological Lexicon
(1888?1891), and the first
History of Modern Greek Literature
(1877) are of the most interest to scholars. He wrote also the following dramatic pieces:
The Wedding of Koutroulis
(comedy),
[3]
Dukas
(tragedy),
The
Thirty Tyrants
,
The Eve
(of the Greek revolution); the romances,
The Prince of Morea
,
Leila
, and
The Notary of Argostoli
; and translated portions of
Dante
,
Schiller
,
Lessing
,
Goethe
and
Shakespeare
.
After his recall he lived in
Athens
, where he died on 28 June 1892. He had married Caroline, the daughter of
James Skene
of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.
A complete edition of his philological works in nineteen volumes was published at Athens (1874?1890), and his
Memoirs
appeared posthumously in 1894?1895.
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Publications about Rangavis
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