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Adamántios Koraïs
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Born April 27, 1748 • Turkey • (Birthday in 6 days)
Died April 6, 1833 (aged 84) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Atakta” • “Library of Greek Literature” • “Parerga”
Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis
Greek linguist
Eugenius Bulgaris
Greek theologian
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Isaac Casaubon
French scholar
Andrew Lang
British scholar
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Dudley Fitts
American teacher, critic, poet and translator
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator
Richmond Lattimore
American poet and translator
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Thomas Tickell
English writer
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author

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