Kleon Rangavis

Kleon Rangavis

Kleon Rizos Rankavis (en: Cléon Rizo-Rangabé; gr: Κλέων Ῥίζος Ῥαγκαβής), born October 10, 1842 in Athens ; † January 20, 1917 in Nice , was a Greek scholar, playwright and diplomat .

Life

His parents were Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves and Caroline Christine Skene, daughter of the Scottish lawyer James Skene of Rubislaw. He studied law and political science at the University of Athens and then in Munich and Heidelberg .

After completing his studies, he entered the foreign service. He first worked as a delegation secretary: 1866 in Washington, DC , from 1867 to 1871 in Mexico City , 1871 in St. Petersburg and Vienna and from 1871 to 1873 in Copenhagen .

From 1873 to 1879 he had exequatur as consul general in Bucharest and Sofia . From 1880 to 1882 he was legation secretary at the Greek Mission to the Khedive Ismail Pasha in Cairo , then from 1883 to 1890 he was envoy to Sofia , Saint Petersburg and Copenhagen . From 1891 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1910 he was envoy in Berlin .

On April 15, 1871, he married Dorothea Freiin von Gerolt zu New York, the daughter of the German ambassador to the USA Friedrich von Gerolt .

During his time in Sofia, he was an honorary chairman of the Oriental Federation , whose declared aim was to unite (a federation of the Balkan countries) against foreign rule in the Balkans.

Σκιαδικά

While his father was foreign minister for King Otto , he studied in Athens. There it came to the Σκιαδικά (shadows) on May 10 and 11, 1859. These were a scenic demonstration for the sale of products made in Greece on the Pedion tou Areos , a square in Athens .

The authorities responded to Σκιαδικά with arrests. Although he ringleader was accused Kleon Rankavis escaped arrest. The dramaturgical talent revealed at the demonstration, however, pointed to him as the originator: the traders of the Greek products wore straw hats from Sifnos , while the traders of the imported goods were identified by cylinders. The student joke also portrayed the law enforcement officers dressed in tattered curtains.

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From 1850 he took part in the annual poetry competition founded by Ambrose Zannis Ralli (1824 - 1895). He is assigned to the Romantics, his works include a poetic collection with the title "Άλγη" (Alga) and the plays "Ιουλιανός ο παραβάτης" (Julian the rapist), "Οι Ίσαυροι" (Isauri), "Ηρiosάκκλειakleς , "Η Δούκισσα των Αθηνών" (The Duchess of Athens).

He wrote the tragedy "Ιουλιανός ο παραβάτης" (Julian the rapist) in 1862 and in 1865 sent it to a poetry competition (Voutsinaios Literary Contest). In 1877 the positions he represented in the work were classified by the Holy Synod as anti-Christian and his dismissal from the diplomatic service in Parliament was applied for. He was employed in Bucharest at the time. Eventually the manuscript was confiscated.

He was a proponent of the archaic Katharevousa and tried unsuccessfully to continue the Phaniariot literature. The circle of poets of the first Athenian school (1830 - 1880) ended with Kleon Rangavis .

poetry

• "Άλγη" (alga). Leipzig (1893)

drama

• Ιουλιανός ο παραβάτης (Julian the rapist), 1862.
• Θεοδώρα (Theodora), dramatic poem in five acts. Leipzig, typ.Durugulin, 1884.
• Το πυρ υπό την αιθάλην (The fire under the smoke), comedy in two acts. Leipzig, standard. Drougulin, 1885.
• Οι Ίσαυροι (The Isauri). 1885.
• Ηράκλειος (Hercules), drama in five acts, 1885.
• Η Δούκισσα των Αθηνών (The Duchess of Athens) 1905.

Excellent works

• Χαράλδος ο Ηγεμών των Βαγιάρων (Charalos the leader of the vagaras), in the competition of the home
• Η δούκισσα των Αθηνών (The Duchess of Athens) at the drama competition of the 4th Olympiad

translation

• In 1906 he published in Athens Ιστορια τησ γερμανικησ λογοτεχνιασ , the Greek translation of a lecture on the history of German national literature by August Vilmar .

estate

His estate has been in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens since 1972 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ștefan Pascu: The Independence of Romania: Selected Bibliography , Editura Academiei Republic Socialiste România, 1980, p. 66 (online on Google Books), accessed on April 12, 2018.
2. ↑ Varban Todorov: THE SOCIETY “ORIENTAL CONFEDERATION” AND ITS ACTIVITIES DURING THE 80TIES AND 90TIES OF THE 19TH CENTURY , online at ojs.lib.uom.gr, accessed April 12, 2018
3. ↑ 1858 to 1859 the riot of the straw hats and fights of the students in Athens against the police prefect Constantine Dimitriadis from Karystia . Bamberger Zeitung: 1862,7 / 12 (online on Google Books), accessed on April 12, 2018.
4. ↑ Vasilios Makrides: Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches: A Concise History of the Religious Cultures of Greece from Antiquity to the Present , New York University Press 2009, p. 143 (online on Google Books), accessed April 12, 2018.
5. ↑ Anthology of Modern Greek Texts, Ανθολόγηση νεοελληνικών κειμένων .
6. ↑ Alexander von Bormann (Ed.): Simultaneities of European Romanticism Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, p. 95 (online on Google Books), accessed on April 12, 2018.
7. ↑ The Kleon Rizos Rangavis literary manuscripts (gift 1972) the literary manuscripts of the Greek diplomat and playwright Kleon Rizos Rangavis (1842-1917), presented by his grand-nephew, together with a number of books by various members of this eminent family.

predecessor	Office	successor
Spyridon Markoras	Greek ambassador to Bulgaria from 1883 to 1891	Mavrokordatos Nikolaos
Angelos Vlachos	Greek envoy to Berlin from 1891 to 1892	Stamatios Antonopulos
Stamatios Antonopulos	Greek envoy in Berlin 1895 to 1910	Nikolaos Theotokis