Konstantinos Kyriakos
Konstantinos Kyriakos ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Κυριακός , also Konstantinos Kyriakos-Aristias ; Romanian / stage name : Costache Aristia ; * 1800 in Constantinople , according to Romanian sources in Bucharest ; † April 18, 1880 in Bucharest) was a Romanian actor, author and revolutionary Greek origin.
biography
Born to Greek parents, he attended the Greek school in Bucharest. As a student he played leading roles in the works of Brutus by Voltaire , Timoleon by Ioannis Zambelis and Philip II by Vittorio Alfieri in performances by a Greek theater group founded by Princess Rallou Karatza . Inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment and the idea of the liberation of Greece from Ottoman rule, he joined the Filiki Eteria and participated as a member of the Greek revolutionary force of Alexander Ypsilantis in the uprising of 1821. After the defeat at Drăgăşani he had to flee; Rallou Karatza sent him to France at his own expense to study acting with François-Joseph Talma .
In 1825 he appeared in performances in Corfu organized by the Ionian Academy . In 1827 he returned to Bucharest. He taught Greek and French at the National College of St. Sava . With Ion Heliade-Rădulescu and other intellectuals associated with the democratic revolutionary movement, he founded the Philharmonic Society's drama school in 1833, where he taught. This laid the foundation stone for a professional cadre of the Romanian theater.
He worked as an actor, translator and author. He translated Homer's Iliad into Romanian , as well as Plutarch , Moliere , Alfieri and other authors.
In 1840 Kyriakos-Aristias went to Athens to found a drama school with the support of the “Philodramatic Society” and to bring a new Greek theater into being. However, he was unsuccessful and returned to Bucharest.
In the Romanian Revolution of 1848 he participated as a colonel in the National Guard. After the defeat of the revolution, he went into exile and lived in Austria, France, Turkey and Greece. In 1851 he was able to return to Romania. There he founded the newspaper Săteanul creştin in 1853 .
Aristia co-founded the National Theater of Bucharest, together with Ion Heliade-Rădulescu and Ion Câmpineanu , which opened its doors on December 31, 1852. The planning went back to the year 1836.
Works
- Harmodios and Aristogeiton or The Panathenaeans , tragedy in five acts (Αρμόδιος και Αριστογείτων: ή τα Παναθήναια), Athens 1840 ( digital copy )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Οικονομίδης, πή την ιστορίαν του νεοελλινικού και ρουμανικού θεάτρου. Συμβολή εις τα περί τοθ βίου και της δράσεως τοθ Κωνσταντινουπολίτου Κωνσταντίνου Κυριάκου ι. An article about the life and work of Constantinople Konstantinos Kyriakou-Aristias, in: Αρχείου του Θρακικού λαογραφικού και γλωσσικού θεσαυρο Archive of the Thracian folklore and linguistic treasure, p
- ↑ "Ο Ελληνισμός της Ρουμανίας τον 19ο αιώνα. Η περίπτωση του Βουκουρεστίου “, Thessaloniki 2007, p. 28
- ^ Enciclopedia României
- ↑ Constantin (Costache) ARISTIA in the compendium "Dictionar personalitati, meditatii, maxime" (Romanian)
- ↑ Ecaterina Țarălungă: "Mic Dicționar de literatură română", Buc. 2007, p. 32, ISBN 973-584-112-6
- ↑ Andonis Glytzouris. Η σκηνοθετική τέχνη στην Ελλάδα The stage arts in Greece , Iraklio 2011, p. 5 (Greek) ( Memento of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ^ Roger Bauer, Michael de Graat, Jürgen Wertheimer: "Yearbook for international German studies: Congress reports", volumes 18-19, Verlag Peter Lang, 1986, p. 342
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kyriakos, Konstantinos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aristia, Costache |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian and Greek actor, writer and revolutionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1880 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |