Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles

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Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles or Apostolidis Sofoklis , Greek Ευαγγελινός Αποστολίδης Σοφοκλής ; The Latinized form of the name is used in his publications and bibliographical records : Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles (born March 8, 1807 in Tsangarada , Thessaly , Greece ; † December 17, 1883 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , USA ) was a Greek Orthodox monk and Graecist .

Life

As a young man he entered the St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai . During the time of the Greek Revolution (1821–1829) he lived in the mother convent in Cairo , but remained in contact with the monastery on Sinai. In 1829 he went to the USA, where one of his first stations was Amherst College . For a job in Hartford he obtained in 1837 at the Yale University to MA and taught there from 1837 to 1840 as an instructor in Modern Greek . From 1842 on he was a tutor in Greek at Harvard College and there from 1860 until his death, University Professor of Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek . With that he probably held the first chair for neo-Greek studies in the western world. In any case, the Dutch linguist and neo-Greekist Dirk Christiaan Hesseling called him the first neo-Greekist.

In addition to various auxiliary materials for teaching Greek (textbooks, grammars, lists of verb forms, chrestomathy ) and a history of the Greek alphabet and the pronunciation of Greek , Sophocles wrote the Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods from BC 146 to AD 1100 , an important one Working instrument for the Greek of the Hellenistic, Imperial, Late Antique and Byzantine periods. In 1856 Sophocles was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners. Hartford, 1835; (Digitized version) . (often reprinted).
  • A Romaic Grammar. Hartford, 1842, (digitized) ; revised edition 1860.
  • A Catalog of Greek Verbs for the Use of Colleges. Hartford, 1844; (Digitized version) .
  • Romaic or Modern Greek Grammar. Boston, 1857, ( digitized ).
  • History of the Greek alphabet with remarks on Greek orthography and pronunciation. George Nichols, Cambridge 1848 ( digitized version ).
  • History of the Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation. Cambridge, 1848; Second edition, revised. John Bartlett, Cambridge 1854 ( digitized version ).
  • A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek. Cambridge, 1860, (digitized) .
  • Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods from BC 146 to AD 1100. Boston, 1870; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1887 ( digitized version 1900; reprints: Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1914; New York, 1957 in two volumes; Olms, Hildesheim 1975, 1992).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margaret Alexiou : Introduction , in: Five Centuries of Books and Manuscripts in Modern Greek. A Catalog of an Exhibition at the Houghton Library December 4, 1987 through February 17, 1988 . Cambridge, The Harvard College Library 1990, pp. 3-15, there p. 13. However, Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison had already held a chair in Modern Greek at the University of Paris for a short period before his death in 1805 and at the Collège de France .
personal data
SURNAME Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sofoklis, Evangelinos Apostolidis; Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides (Latin); Σοφοκλής, Ευαγγεληνός Αποστολίδης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Orthodox monk and Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsangarada , Thessaly , Greece
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1883
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts