Nikolaos Sophianos
Nikolaos Sophianos ( Greek Νικόλαος Σοφιανός ; born around 1500 in Corfu ; died after 1551 in Venice ) was a Greek humanist .
Sophianos was born in Corfu into a noble family and went to Rome to study at the Greek grammar school founded by Janos Laskaris , among others . Another teacher there was Arsenios Apostolios . Sophianos spent the rest of his life as a copyist and librarian in Rome and Venice , with the exception of a trip in 1543 that took him to Mount Athos , where he found, among other things, a manuscript by the orator Isocrates .
Sophianos is best known for his cartographic work, the Totius Graeciae Descriptio , and for his grammar of modern Greek . The map of Greece was printed in Rome in 1540 and in Basel in 1544, but these prints have been lost. A third printing was organized by Johannes Oporinus in 1545 .
In addition, he wrote a script about production and use of the astrolabe ( Περί κατασκευής και χρήσεως κρικωτού αστρολάβου , probably written in 1534 and printed in 1539) and scholia to the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy and a translation of the Scriptures about the education of the youth of Plutarch into modern Greek.
Works (selection)
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Émile Legrand (eds.): Σοφιανοὺ τοῦ Κερκυραίου Νικολάου Γραμματικὴ τῆς κοινῆς τῶν Ελλήνων γλώσσης νῦν τὸ πρῶτον κατὰ τὸ ἐν Παρισίοις χειρόγραφον ἐκδοθεῖσα ἐπιμελείᾳ και διορθώσει Αἰμυλίου Λεγρανδίου. Ἐν τῷ γραφείῳ τῆς Πανδώρας, Ἀθήνησιν and Maisonneuve, Paris 1870 (Collection de monuments pour servir à l'étude de la langue neo-hellénique, no.6: Grammaire de la langue grecque vulgaire par Nikolaos Sophianos), (online) (PDF)
- Extended second edition under the title: Nicolas Sophianos, Grammaire du grec vulgaire et traduction en grec vulgaire du Traité de Plutarque sur l'éducation des enfants. Maisonneuve, Paris 1874 ( digitized version ); (another copy online) (PDF). - Review by Bernhard Schmidt, in: Jenaer Literaturzeitung 1874, No. 35, pp. 568–569, (online) .
literature
- Robert Browning : Medieval and Modern Greek . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969, 2nd ed. 1983, p. 93.
- Constantine Sathas : Νεοελληνική Φιλολογία: Βιογραφία των εν τοις γράμμασι διαλαμψάντων Ελλήνων, από της καταλύσεως της Βυζαντινής Αυτοκρατορίας μέχρι της Ελληνικής εθνεγερσίας (1453-1821). Τυπογραφείο των τέκνων Ανδρέου Κορομηλά, Αθήνα 1868, pp. 141-143 ( digitized version ).
- George Tolias: Nikolaos Sophianos's Totius Graeciae Descriptio: The Resources, Diffusion and Function of a Sixteenth-Century Antiquarian Map of Greece. In: Imago Mundi 58, 2006, 150-182.
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikolaos Sophianos in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Nikolaos Sophianos in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- World Digital Library : Nicolai Gerbelij in descriptionem Graeciae Sophiani, praefatio , English: Preface of Nicolas Gerbelius to Sophianos's Description of Greece . Place of storage: Library of Congress . - (image of the map)
- Anemi. Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies: Another online copy of Émile Legrand's edition of Grammar
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sophianos, Nikolaos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Σοφιανός, Νικόλαος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek humanist, cartographer and grammarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Corfu |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1551 |
| Place of death | Venice |