Alexandros Rizos Rangavis

Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, also Rhangabe, Rhangavis (Greek Ἀλέξανδρος Ῥίζος Ῥαγκαβής; * December 27, 1809 in Constantinople, Opel, † January 16, 1892 in Athens ) was a Greek poet, literary scholar and diplomat of the 19th century.

Life

From a Phanariotengeschlecht to arise Rhankaves grew up in Bucharest at the Palace of the Prince of Wallachia related with him Alexandros Soutsos on, as well as in Braşov and finally in Odessa, where he attended high school. Since 1825, he studied at the Bavarian War Academy in Munich. In 1829 he did as a lieutenant of artillery into Greek army in Nafplio, from which he retired but once again, as he had not been set in his rightful rank. Subsequently, he served in various government positions: as from 1831 to 1841 the Ministry of Education, where he was involved in the organization of secondary schools and universities, and then until 1844 at the Foreign Ministry, where he was primarily concerned with the fight against piracy. In the same year he retired compulsorily from the civil service, because he henceforth no longer allowed to be active in the civil service as a non- Greek, he was officially, and became a professor of archeology at the University of Athens.

In the following years he worked as a scholar and writer until he was appointed in 1856 to the Greek Foreign Minister, a post which he knew to 1859. Since 1867 he was successively a Greek ambassador in Washington - the first of his office in the U.S. at all - Konstantin Opel, Paris, and finally in Berlin, where he associated, among others, in the salon of the Elise of Hohenhausen. In 1887 he retired.

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Already in 1831 Rhankaves had stepped into the limelight with its romantic poem Δήμος καὶ Ἑλένη. He was known in Greece as a poet long before he gained significant political positions. Quickly, he was considered one of the most important representatives of romantic First Athenian school. From 1847 to 1849 he edited the literary magazine Euterpe together with Panagiotis Soutsos. Since 1851, he turned more and more of the romance off after nor his prologue had been subject to his drama Φροσύνη of 1837 as something of a " manifesto of Romanticism " in the Greek literature.

Rhankaves wrote poetry and short stories as well as scientific papers, mostly on Archaeology and the modern Greek literature. In addition, he made important as a translator: So he transferred works of Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and Schiller into Greek.

Works

• Δήμος καὶ Ἑλένη. 1831
• Διάφορα ποιήματα. 2 vols 1837 / 40th
• Διονύσου πλοῦς. , 1864.
• Γοργός ἱέραξ. In 1871.
• Διάφορα Διηγήματα. 3 vols, 1855-59.
• Ὁ Αὐθέντης τοῦ Μορέως. Historical novel, 1850.
• Ἱστορία τῆς Νεοελληνικὴς Λογοτεχνίας

German

• Demon of love. Berlin: Richard Hartmann, 1913.
• The two sisters and other stories. Berlin: Hillger, 1906.
• Serlandis. Berlin: Hillger, 1898.