Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles
Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles | |
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Ευαγγελινός Αποστολίδης Σοφοκλής | |
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| Born | March 8, 1807 |
| Died | December 17, 1883 (aged 76) Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classicist |
| Sub-discipline | Modern Greek |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (Greek: Ευαγγελινός Αποστολίδης Σοφοκλής; March 8, 1807 – December 17, 1883) was a Greek Orthodox monk, professor of classics and Modern Greek at Harvard University, and lexicographer.[1][2][3][4] He was born in Tsangarada, Thessaly, Ottoman Empire, and he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[5] and is considered to be a pioneer of Modern Greek studies.[6]
Selected works
- A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners. Hartford, 1835; (Digitized).
- A Romaic Grammar. Hartford, 1842; (Digitized); revised edition 1860.
- A Catalogue of Greek Verbs for the Use of Colleges. Hartford, 1844; (Digitized).
- Romaic or Modern Greek Grammar. Boston, 1857, (Digitized).
- History of the Greek alphabet with remarks on Greek orthography and pronunciation. George Nichols, Cambridge, 1848, (Digitized).
- History of the Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation. Cambridge, 1848; Second edition, revised. John Bartlett, Cambridge, 1854, (Digitized).
- A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek. Cambridge, 1860, (Digitized).
- Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100. Boston, 1870; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1887, (Digitized). Reprinted: Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1914; New York, 1957 in two volumes.
References
- ^ A. C. Zenos: Sophocles’ Greek Lexicon, in: The Classical Review, Bd. 4, H. 1/2 (1890), Ss. 41–44. Review: Sophocles's Greek Lexicon.
- ^ Biographical article in National Herald, NY, (2015). Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles: The Ascetic of Harvard College.
- ^ History of the Program of Modern Greek Studies, Harvard University.
- ^ Yale University Historical Register.
- ^ Obituary in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 19 (May, 1883 – May, 1884), pp. 502–504. JSTOR online.
- ^ D. C. Hesserling, "Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles", Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Letterkunde, Ser. 4, 59 (1925), Part 7.
Sources
- Meyer Reinhold's entry in the Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars
- Ancient Greek Wikipedia
- M Paraschos (2011): Boston Greeks, Boston. link including The New York Times (18 December 1883) and The Boston Globe obituaries.
- George Herbert Palmer, "Reminiscences of Professor Sophocles", Atlantic Monthly 67 (1891) 779–88 online
- George C. Soulis, Euaggelinos Apostolides Sophokles (Athens, 1952);
- Albert S. Weston, BDAE, 1218–9; WhAmHS 567.
- Leber, George. History of the Order of AHEPA 1922-1972. Order of AHEPA.
