Aristides Phoutrides

Aristides Evangelou Phoutrides ( Greek Αριστείδης Ευαγγέλου Φουτρίδης , also in the transcription: Aristidis Evangelu Phutridis , * April 17, 1887 on the East Aegean island of Ikaria ; † August 26, 1923 on Chebeague Island , Maine , United States was a Greek and Neo- Classical philologist. ) and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities until his untimely death .

Life

After receiving the AB summa cum laude in 1911 and the Ph.D. Having completed a degree in Classics at Harvard University , Phoutrides taught Greek and Latin at his alma mater until 1917 and then again in 1921, but went to Yale University in the same year, where he taught until his untimely death in 1923. Immediately after his studies he founded one of the first Greek student organizations in the USA called Helikon , which existed from 1911 to 1918. Phoutrides also advised the Icarian Brotherhood on building a secondary school on his home island.

His wife was Margaret Garrison Phoutrides.

Phoutrides was personally friends with the Greek poet Kostis Palamas , who introduced him, a representative of the purist Katharevousa , to the Greek vernacular ( Dimotiki ). He translated Palamas' poems into English. Phoutrides was also the first philologist in the United States to make significant contributions to modern Greek literary studies. He also published his own poems and, together with Francis Farquhar, an illustrated book about Olympus .

Works

Poems

• Lights at dawn. Poems. The Stratford Co., 1917.

Translations into English

• Kostes Palamas: Life Immovable (First Part). Transl., Introd., Notes by Aristides E. Phoutrides. Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1919 ( online ).
• Modern Greek stories. Transl. by Demetra Vaka and Aristides Phoutrides, with a foreword by Demetra Vaka. Duffield and Company, New York, 1920.
• Kostes Palamas: A Hundred Voices and Other Poems from the Second Part of 'Life Immovable' . Transl., Introd., Notes by Aristides E. Phoutrides. Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1921; also: London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921.
• Kostes Palamas: Royal Blossom or Trisevyene. A play . Tr. and introd. by AE Phoutrides. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Also: London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1923.
• Kostes Palamas: A Man's Death. A story . Transl. by DC Hesseling , foreword by AE Phoutrides. Athens: Printing Office "Hestia", 1934.

Others

• Francis P. Farquhar and Aristides E. Phoutrides: Mount Olympus. Illustrated from photographs. Johnck & Seeger, San Francisco, 1929.

literature

• Nicholas D. Diamantides: Aristides E. Phoutrides: Harvard's Schizocardiac Scholar . In: Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 8 (1992) 73-94.
• Anthony J. Papalas: Rebels and radicals: Icaria 1600-2000 . Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Wauconda, Ill. 2005, p. 145, ISBN 0-86516-606-4 ( online ).

Web links

• Entry in the Νεοελληνική Εικονιστική Προσωπογραφία (with photography)
• Diamantides Collection on Aristides Phoutrides, Draft box list for Reading room user, April 2003, Princeton University (PDF; 9 kB)
• Christopher Gussis: The Historic Boston Greek Cathedral: Reliving 100 Years (for the founding of the Helikon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cambridge Tribune, Volume XLVI, Number 27, September 1, 1923, p. 7.
2. ↑ Ikaria Magazine, 2004 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8.7 MB) 
3. ↑ kathimerini.gr : Το νέο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ικαρίας, February 1, 2007 ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.