Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
Alexandros Rizos Rangavis or Alexander Rizos Rakgabis (Alexandre Rizos Rangabé; 27 December 180928 June 1892), was a Greek man of letters, poet and statesman.
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- Name
- Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
- Born
- 27 December 1809
- Birthplace
- Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
- Died
- 28 June 1892
- Place of death
- Athens, Greece
- Occupation
- Writer and statesman
- Nationality
- Greece.
- Movements
- Romantic poetry and First Athenian School.
- Known for
- The Notary.
- Languages
- German and Modern Greek.
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Alexandros Rizos Rangavis or Alexander Rizos Rakgabis (Alexandre Rizos Rangabé; 27 December 180928 June 1892), was a Greek man of letters, poet and statesman.
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Key facts
• Name — Alexandros Rizos Rangavis • Birth Name — Alexandros Rizos Rangavis • Born — 27 December 1809 • Birthplace — Constantinople, Ottoman Empire • Died — 28 June 1892 • Place of death — Athens, Greece • Occupation — Writer and statesman • Period — 19th century
Early life
Early life
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
Literary work
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. 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), 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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1809
Alexandros Rizos Rangavis born at Constantinople.
1892
Alexandros Rizos Rangavis died at Athens.
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Constantinople.
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Athens.
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Publications
Publications
• Ραγκαβής, Α. Ρ. (1852). Memoire sur la partie meridionale de l' ile d' Eubee / par M. Rangabe. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. • Ραγκαβής, Α. Ρ. (1859). Διάφορα διηγήματα και ποιήματα. Εν Αθήναις: Εκ του Τυπογραφείου Γ. Περδικομμάτη. • Ραγκαβής, Α. Ρ. (1866). Αρχαιολογία: Ιστορία της Αρχαίας Καλλιτεχνίας, Τ. 2, Εν Αθήναις. • Ραγκαβής, Α. Ρ. (1873). Ο πρίγκιψ του Μορέως / Le Prince de Morée, traduction du grec autorisée par l'auteur. Paris Librairie Academique.
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Publications about Rangavis
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Alexandros Rizos Rangavis (1809-1892): Greek politician and writer
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scholarly publication
- Empire and Exoticism in the Short Fiction of Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2006
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1389266: Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
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- 1.Heinrich von Brunn. Alexandros Rizos Rangavis. 1892.
- 2.Holger Krahnke: Die Mitglieder der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1751–2001 (= Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Folge 3, Band 246 = Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Folge 3, Band 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1, S. 196.
- 3.Korrespondierende Mitglieder der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften seit 1724: Рангавис, Александр Ризос.
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