Emmanuel Rhoides
Emmanouil Roidis (Greek Εμμανουήλ Ροΐδης, born June 18, 1836 in Syros, † January 7, 1904 in Athens ) was an important Greek writer. His work includes novels, short stories, essays and translations.
Life
Roidis was born in Syros Syros, the son of an affluent family of noble birth from Chios. His parents were Dimitrios and Cornelia Roidis (born Rodokanaki ). 1841 the family moved from a profession of his father to Italy, who worked there for a large trading company based in Genoa. Later he became the Consul General of Greece. At the age of 13 years Emmanouil Roidis returned to his birthplace of Syros, where the American- Greek Lyceum he studied with the late writer and first President of the International Olympic Committee Dimitrios vikelas later. Together, the two gave the weekly handwritten newspaper Μέλισσα ( Mélissa = bee) out. In 1855 he completed his studies and moved to leave them there treat the hearing, where he had his life to suffer to Berlin. During this time he devoted himself to incoming literary and philosophical studies. After a year he moved to Iaşi, where he took over the correspondence of his uncle Dimitrios Rodokanakis, a dealer based in Romania. There he began the translation of Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem of Chateaubriand to work into Greek. The completed translation he finally gave out in Athens in 1860. Later he followed his parents to Egypt and remained there until the death of his father. In 1862 he moved with his mother to Athens, where he settled permanently. He decided not to carry out the transactions of the Father, and to focus instead on writing.
In 1866, he finished work on his first novel, Πάπισσα Ιωάννα ( Pope Joan ), a satire on the clergy of the Western Church of the Middle Ages. In the following years he worked alongside his literary work for various French-language newspapers.
From January 1875 he was, together with the cartoonist Themos Anninos out the weekly satirical magazine Ασμοδαίος, which he used for his criticism of the current public and political life in Greece. In 1877 he got into an argument with the politicians and writers Angelos Vlachos. This was an essay Roidis ' entitled On the contemporary Greek poetry ( Περὶ Συγχρόνου Ἑλληνικῆς Ποιήσεως ), in which he attacked the excessive romanticism and literary competitions in the University of Athens.
Roidis was an ardent supporter of Dimotiki, the Greek vernacular, which is now the common Greek language, in his time of Katharevousa, however, was subordinate. He wrote his works in Katharevousa, however, advocated in several linguistic essays (but also in the prologue to the translation of Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem Chateaubriand ) the use of the vernacular Dimotiki in the literature. The Zweisprachigkei in Greece at that time he felt as a national disaster, for which he made the educated primarily responsible.
Between 1890 and 1900 he published most of his stories. Until his death, he continued to work together with numerous literary magazines as well as newspapers.
Works
Novels
- H Πάπισσα Ιωάννα (I Papissa Ioanna ). , 1866. The Pope Joan. Your true story. Bastion - Luebbe, Bergisch- Gladbach in 2000, ISBN 3-404-14446-5.
Stories
- The husband 's experiences last. Narratives. Edited by Andrea Schellinger. From the Modern Greek by Gerhard Blümlein and Sigrid Willer. With an afterword by Tilman Spengler. Manesseplatz, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7175-2198-3.