CORALS (KoRAis), ADAMANTIOS [in French, DIAMANT CORAY] (17481833)

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CORALS (KoRAis), ADAMANTIOS [in French, DIAMANT CORAY] (17481833) , Greek scholar and patriot, was born at Smyrna, the son of a merchant. As a schoolboy he distinguished himself in the study of ancient Greek, but from 1772 to 1779 he was occupied with the management of his father's business affairs in

Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

. In 1782, on the collapse of his father's business, he went to Montpellier, where for six years he studied

medicine

MEDICINE

, supporting himself by translating German and English medical works into French. He then settled in Paris, where he lived until his death on the loth of April 1833. Inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, he devoted himself to furthering the cause of Greek independence both among the Greeks themselves and by awakening the

interest

INTEREST

of the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

European

Powers

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

against the Turkish

rule

RULE

. His

great

GREAT

object was to rouse the enthusiasm of the Greeks for the idea that they were the true descendants of the ancient Hellenes by teaching them to regard as their own

inheritance

INHERITANCE

'the

great

GREAT

works of antiquity. He sought to purify the

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

written language by eliminating the more obvious barbarisms, and by enriching it with classical words and others invented in strict accordance with classical tradition (see further GREEK LANGUAGE: modern). Under his influence, though the common

patois

PATOIS

was practically untouched, the language of literature and intellectual inter-course was made to approximate to the pure Attic of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

works are his editions of Greek authors contained in his `EXXrlvuci7 B1/3X1oti7url and his llapepya; his editions of the Characters of Theophrastus, of the De are, aquis, et locis of Hippocrates, and of the Aethiopica of Heliodorus, elaborately annotated.
His literary remains have been edited by Mamoukas and Damalas (18811887); collections of letters written from Paris at the time of the French Revolution have been published (in English, by P. Ralli, 1898; in French, by the Marquis de Queux de Saint-Hilaire, 1880). His autobiography appeared at Paris (1829; Athens, 1891), and his life has been written by D. Thereianos (18891890); see also A. R. Rhangabe, Histoire litteraire de la Grece moderne (1877).

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