Konstantinos Oikonomos

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Konstantinos Oikonomos

Konstantinos Oikonomos (* August 28 . Jul / 8. September  1780 greg. In Tsaritsani ( Thessaly ), † March 8 jul. / 20th March  1857 greg. In Athens ) was a modern Greek preacher and scholar.

life and work

Konstantinos Oikonomos studied theology and was a preacher in Thessaly from 1805. He was imprisoned in Ioannina on suspicion of participating in the unsuccessful uprising of Armatolen Vlachavas . But in the end he escaped the reenactments of Ali Pasha and acted as the representative of the Metropolitan in Thessaloniki . From there he went to Smyrna , where he worked since 1809 at the local philosophical high school as a teacher of philology and rhetoric . But he gave up this position because of multiple hostilities and moved to Mytilene . First preacher at the main Greek church in Constantinople since 1819 , he fled to Odessa in 1821 after the assassination of the patriarch Gregory , where he gave a famous funeral address for Gregory. From there he followed a call from Emperor Alexander I to Saint Petersburg , where he worked on this very in favor of Greece. He also became an honorary member of the Holy Synod and a member of the Petersburg Academy. After ten years in Russia, he went to Germany , then Italy, and returned to Greece in 1835. In Athens he did not accept a public teaching post, but was active in literature and had significant influence on church affairs in the sense of Orthodoxy. He died in Athens on March 20, 1857 at the age of 76.

Oikonomos was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In addition to various school books ( Rhetorik , Vienna 1813; Poetik , das. 1817), grammatical works should be emphasized: About the close relationship between the Slavic language and the Hellenic language (3 vols., St. Petersburg 1828) and About the real pronunciation of Greek (das . 1833), against the principles of the Erasmians. Theological contents are: On the three levels of the priesthood in the Church (Nauplia 1835); Directory of the Bishops and Patriarchs of the Church in Constantinople (that. 1837); About the Septuagint (4 vols., Athens 1849). In the latter work as well as in the text Against the Spread of the Bible in Modern Greek , Oikonomos sought to work so that Modern Greek came closer and closer to the Greek Bible language; he was not averse even to the introduction of ancient Greek as a folk and written language. His funeral speeches are famous (Berlin 1833); poems that should be mentioned are a comedy and an elegy on the emperor Alexander I of Russia (St. Petersburg 1825). His collected works were published in 3 volumes (Athens 1864–67).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Oikonomos, Konstantinos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Modern Greek pulpit speaker and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsaritsani (Thessaly)
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1857
Place of death Athens