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Korais beschäftigte sich früh mit dem Studium der alten und neuen Sprachen, lernte dann auf den Wunsch seines Vaters in Amsterdam den Beruf des Kaufmanns.
Korais versuchte das Bewusstsein der Griechen auf ihr geschichtliches Erbe, ihren hellenistischen Ursprung, zu wecken.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Adamantios Korais
Adamantios Korais (Coraïs) (April 27, 1748–April 6, 1833) was born in Smyrna, in 1748.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire, although he believed it was the Orthodox Church that preserved the national identity of Greeks.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire, although Korais admitted that it was the Orthodox Church that preserved the national identity of Greeks.
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 Adamantios Korais - Phantis
Adamantios Korais (Coraïs) (April 27, 1748 - April 6, 1833) was a Greek intellectual.
Korais graduated from the University of Montpellier in 1788 with a degree in Medicine and was to spend most of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire, although Korais admitted that it was the Orthodox Church that preserved the national identity of Greeks.
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 Adamantios Korais
Adamantios Korais (Coraïs) (April 27, 1748–April 6, 1833) was born in Smyrna, in 1748.
Korais graduated from the University of Montpellier in 1788 and was to spend most of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire, although he believed it was the Orthodox Church that preserved the national identity of Greeks.
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 Adamantios Korais Information
Adamantios Korais (Coraïs) (Greek Αδαμάντιος Κοραής) (April 27, 1748–April 6, 1833) was born in Smyrna, in 1748.
Korais believed that education would ensure not only the achievement of independence but also the establishment of a proper constitution for the new liberated Greek state.
Korais also assisted in purifying a form of the Greek language (Katharevousa).
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Adamantios Korais (Coraïs) (Greek Αδαμάντιος Κοραής) (April 27, 1748–April 6, 1833) was born in Smyrna, in 1748.
Korais graduated from the famous school of medicine of the University of Montpellier in 1788 and was to spend most of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
Korais believed that education would ensure not only the achievement of independence but also the establishment of a proper constitution for the new liberated Greek state.
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 Adamantios Korais - MedPort-Lexikon
Adamantios Korais (Adamántios Koraïs, Αδαμάντιος Κοραής) (* 27.
Korais beschäftigte sich früh mit dem Studium der alten und neuen Sprachen, lernte dann auf den Wunsch seines Vaters in Amsterdam den Beruf des Kaufmanns.
Korais versuchte das Bewusstsein der Griechen auf ihr geschichtliches Erbe, ihren hellenistischen Ursprung, zu wecken.
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Adamantios Korais (April 27, 1748 - April 6, 1833) was a graduateof the University of Montpellier in 1788 and he spent most of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy andtheir subservience to the Ottoman Empire.
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 Chios Island Travel Guide - Alithia Media Group - Chios town,chios city
The Korais Library, opposite it, is the third in size and imprortance one in Greece, containing 150.000 volumes.
Korais and of many other famous Chians, as well as the Ethnological and Traditional Museum of the Argentis Association (on the first floor).
The centre of the cultural interest is the Omirion Centre of the Municipality of Chios, which was donated to the island in 1974 by Michael and Stamatia Xyla.
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 Katharevousa - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Katharevousa (Greek Καθαρεύουσα, IPA: [kaθaˈre̞vuˌsa]) is a form of the Greek language, created during the early 19th century by Adamantios Korais (1748-1833).
A graduate of the university of Montpellier in 1788, Korais spent most of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
Being a classical scholar, he was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire.
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Korais versuchte das Bewusstsein der Griechen auf ihr geschichtliches Erbe, ihren hellenistischen Ursprung, zu wecken.
Das Fachwissen Korais über das klassische Altertum entstand durch das Studium der Ausgaben altgriechischer Schriftsteller.
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 Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
Adamantios Korais (April 27, 1748 - April 6, 1833) was a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1788 and he spent most of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire.
He believed that education was a precursor to Greek liberation.
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 Adamantios Korais - Wissen im Web   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Adamantios Korais (griechisch Αδαμάντιος Κοραής - Adamántios Koraís; * 27.
Korais beschäftigte sich mit der Kirche, Schule, Wissenschaft und Politik.
Vor allem aber ist Korais für seine entscheidende Rolle in der griechischen Sprachfrage bekannt: Er versuchte einen Mittelweg zwischen der antikisierenden Hochsprache und der Volkssprache gehen und ging als Erfinder der Katharevousa (= die Reine; die gereinigte Volkssprache) in die griechische Sprachgeschichte ein.
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 Aegean Islands,Greece:Tourist guide for holidays to Northern Aegean Islands,Holidays Greece
This impressive island, was the birthplace of, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Adamantios Korais, Neofytos Vamvas, Giannis Psycharis, Emmanouil Roidis and Lambros Porfyras.
Capital and harbour is Chios, built at eastern central side of the island.
In addition, in Korais library, there are manuscripts with information for the history of the island from rare books of Adamantios Korais.
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 vhs.at Event: Vortrag - Die griechische Aufklärung mit Schwerpunkt Adamantios Korais Zugeordnet: Urania - Verband ...
Korais entwickelte sich zum großen alten Mann der griechischen Aufklärung und Reformator der griechischen Sprache und trug maßgeblich zur geistigen und politischen Vorbereitung des griechischen Freiheitskampfes gegen das Osmanische Reich (1821) bei.
Gleichzeitig zählte er zu den bedeutendsten Philologen seiner Zeit und veröffentlichte eine Reihe von altgriechischen Texten.
Obwohl Korais selbst nie in Wien war, waren viele seiner Freunde und Mitarbeiter hier aktiv und haben wichtige Bücher
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Bild:Korais Adamantios.png 130pxthumbrightAdamantios Korais Korais beschäftigte sich früh mit dem Studium der alten und neuen Sprachen, lernte dann auf den Wunsch seines Vaters in Amsterdam den Beruf des Kaufmanns.
Korais versuchte das Bewusstsein der Griechen auf ihr geschichtliches Erbe, ihren Hellenen hellenistischen Ursprung, zu wecken.
Korais kritisierte in seinen Briefen und Publikationen die griechisch-Orthodoxe Kirche, die das Leben seiner Landsleute im Osmanisches Reich Osmanischen Reich beherrschte.
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 Adamantios Korais
Adamantios Korais (April 27, 1748 - April 6, 1833) was a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1788 and he spent most of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
A classical scholar, Korais was repelled by the Byzantine influence in Greek society and was a fierce critic of the ignorance of the clergy and their subservience to the Ottoman Empire.
He realized that education was a precursor to Greek liberation.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/a/ad/adamantios_korais.html   (93 words)

  
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Adamantios Korais (Adamántios Koraïs, Αδαμάντιος Κοραής) (* 27.
Korais beschäftigte sich früh mit dem Studium der alten und neuen Sprachen, lernte dann auf den Wunsch seines Vaters in Amsterdam den Beruf des Kaufmanns.
Korais versuchte das Bewusstsein der Griechen auf ihr geschichtliches Erbe, ihren hellenistischen Ursprung, zu wecken.
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 Chios The Island Of Ones Dreams
In addition, Adamantios Korais, regarded as the father of Modern Greek literature and the scholar who laid the intellectual foundation for the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Turks, is uniquely identified with Chios.
Upon his death in 1833, Korais donated all of his writings and manuscripts to his beloved island of Chios.
Today the Korais Library comprises of over 130,000 books and volumes, many of them primary source materials, and academics travel from all parts of the world to study there.
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 Intellectual activity in the 18th century
The poetry of the era, marshalled towards the ideological battles of the Enlightenment, combines neoclassicism and early Romanticism with intensely didactic elements.
However, the greatest interest was focused on education, which had begun to loosen its dependency on the Church, while within the context of the Enlightenment, education and particularly knowledge of the Classics, came to be directly linked with the fight for independence.
"The love of education," writes Adamantios Korais in his Memoirs, "has been propagated and spread with all the symptoms of a communicable disease.
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He devoted himself to the propagation of the Enlightenment among the Greeks and of the Greek cause among the French, and above all to the development of a literary modem Greek language, to be formed by the infusion of classical words into the spoken tongue and by the systematisation of its formal structure.
In the educated class the views of Korais certainly gained ground, but they did not rout the opposing views; while for most Greeks the old values long remained unchallenged.
Korais had intended to create a new language, enriched by much of the classical past.
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 History Today: The educational archive of articles, news and study aids for teachers, students and enthusiasts - Korais ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1983 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of Adamantios Korais, the Smyrniot Greek who, from his self-imposed exile in France, was to dominate the intellectual revival that characterised the Greek lands in the decades before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.
Korais was born in Smyrna in 1748, the son of a silk merchant from Chios.
One of his uncles became the Metropolitan of Belgrade, while his grandfather Adamantios Rysios was one of the most educated Greeks of his time and the author of a virulent...
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 Adamantios Korais Biography on DanceAge
As an adult Korais traveled to Paris where he would continue his enthusiasm for knowledge.
He translated ancient Greek authors and produced thirty volumes of those translations.
His main preoccupation was with education and he encouraged wealthy Greeks to open new libraries and schools throughout Greece.
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 The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression
Ottoman occupation was very harsh for christians and meant not only the destruction on the grounds of thousands monasteries, churches, monuments, burning of documents, manuscripts, icons but also meant heavy taxation for non muslim subjects, hard work on the fields and illiteracy.
Efialtis betrayed Leonidas, Greeks opened the Kerkoporta of Constantinople to the turkish besiegers, Nenekos fought with 2000 greeks on the side of sultan, against the revolutionaries etc.) Righas and his comrades after torture from turks were strangled, on 24 June 1798, in Belgrade.
Adamantios Korais was born in Smyrna, in 1748.
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 Korais Library, Chios
The Korais Library is the third largest in Greece, with 140,000 volumes.
The library is named after the Chios-born scholar Adamantios Korais (1748-1833), who later worked in Paris.
In the same building is the Argentis family's large collection of paintings and folk art, presented to Chios by Filippos Argentis (bust in front of the building); the collection also includes a wealth of material on the history of Chios.
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 Demotic vs Katharevousa
This took the form of a virulent controversy in the 19th century with strong political and ideological connotations.
Adamantios Korais (1748-1833) - and on the other the 'demoticists' supporting the language of the 'demos' (lay people) called 'demotiki'.
Korais created, for instance, the word politismos for civilisation, while famelia became oikogeneia (family), kontrabando became lathremporio, ministros became ypourgos and so forth.
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 The Great Lie Main Frame
Adamantios Korais (1748-1833)denounced the 'Holy Light' as a fraud and urged the Eastern Orthodox Church to discontinue the practice, arguing that "no true religion is in need of such false miracles".
In his treatise "On the Holy Light of Jerusalem", Korais was adamant against religious fraud and theurgy.
He referred to the recurring 'miracle' as 'machinations of fraudulent priests' and to the unholy light of Jerusalem as...
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 Free Essays - Greek Independence
The intellectual basis of nationalism came form the rich and prominent diaspore Greeks of the eighteenth century.
Two leaders of that group were Adamantios Korais and Rigas Velestinlis.
Korais argued the education of Greeks about their ancient heritage was the path towards freedom.
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 Greek Literature - MSN Encarta
Furthermore, many of the Greek patriots writing abroad, assuming that ancient Hellas was about to arise from its ashes, forced the modern idiom into unnatural antique patterns.
Adamantios Korais, a learned classicist living in Paris, urged the use of a combined language, one that was neither ancient nor modern.
The language dichotomy can easily be traced in the area of poetry.
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