Georgios Gennadios
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Georgios Gennadios (
modern Greece, considered among the most important personalities of the Modern Greek Enlightenment
.
Life
Gennadios was born in 1784 in
University of Leipzig under Wilhelm Ernst Weber
. He returned to Bucharest upon completion of his studies in 1814.
At 1815 he became an assistant to
Alexandros Ypsilantis in 1821 he went to Odessa and from there to Dresden. He returned to Greece in 1826 to take part in the Greek War of Independence
.
Following the establishment of the independent Greek state, Gennadios was appointed by Kapodistrias, now Governor of Greece, together with Georgios Konstantas and Ioannis Benthylos to compile an official grammar of the Greek language. He founded the Central School of
University of Athens. He also founded the Archaeological Society of Athens and initiated the numismatic collection eventually housed at the Numismatic Museum of Athens. Among his students were Constantine Paparrigopoulos and Alexandros Rizos Rangavis.[1][page needed
]
In 1854, during the Crimean War, he led a revolutionary committee for the liberation of Epirus, his homeland, but died the same year during a cholera epidemic. Gennadios’ statue was placed in front of the National Library of Greece following the construction of Theophil Hansen's neoclassical building to house the collections of the library in 1903.
Gennadios's son
American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the building built to house it was named in honor of Georgios as the Gennadeion
.
Works
- Grammar of the ancient Greek language, (Γραμματική της αρχαίας Ελληνικής γλώσσης, 1832).
- Edited Σύνοψις της Ιεράς Ιστορίας (1835) and Κατήχησις ή Ορθόδοξος διδασκαλία της Ανατολικής Εκκλησίας (1835).
See also
References
- ^ Anastasios N. Goudas Βίοι Παράλληλοι των επί της αναγεννήσεως της Ελλάδος διαπρεψάντων ανδρών, Τόμος Β’ Παιδεία, Publisher: M.P. Perides Printing House, Athens
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