Angelos Vlachos

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Angelos Vlachos

Angelos Vlachos (born March 25 . Jul / 6. April  1838 greg. In Athens ; † 19th July 1920 ) was a modern Greek poet and writer.

life and work

Angelos Vlachos studied in Athens and later in Berlin and Heidelberg jurisprudence . In 1859 he got a job in the Foreign Ministry, in 1863 he was head of the Ministry of the Interior, in 1865 head of section in the Ministry of Culture and in 1875 in the Foreign Ministry and in 1880 Undersecretary in the latter. In 1885 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent Attica . From June 1887 to December 1890 he was the Greek envoy in Berlin, and in 1895 Minister of Education in Athens, where he later lived. At the beginning of the 20th century he was the first director of the Athens National Theater .

Vlachos' poetic works consisted of lyric poems, comedies and the epic Phidias and Pericles . He also wrote critical studies on the modern Greek poet P. Sutzos (1874). Joannes Karasutsas (1874), Georgios Tertsetis (1875), G. Zalokostas (1877), A. Sutzos (1878) and others His translations of German works (such as Lessing's Nathan the Wise , Goethe's Clavigo , Heine's The Gods in Exile and Paul Heyses Hadrian ) as well as works by Shakespeare and Lamartine made foreign literature accessible to its readership. He also published u. a:

  • Elementary grammar of the modern Greek language , Leipzig 1864; 5th edition, Leipzig 1899
  • The Homeric Question , price publication, Athens 1865
  • Modern Greek Chrestomathy , Leipzig 1870; 2nd edition, Leipzig 1883
  • Modern Greek-French dictionary , Athens 1871

literature

personal data
SURNAME Vlachos, Angelos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION modern Greek poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1920
Place of death Athens