Contribution à la connaisance de la vie et de l'œuvre de deux Grecs de la Diaspora : Athanasios Kondoïdis et Athanasios Skiadas (18e siècle)
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The present study examines the activity of two Greek learned men of the
Diaspora at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the following
century : the Corfiot Athanassios Kontoidis and the Cephalonian Athanassios
Skiadas. They are examined together because they lived and worked together
for a large period of time in the same area: namely, in the Russia of Peter the
Great; they are considered as the forerunners of the Modern Greek Enlightenment. The life and works of Kontoidis are examined firstly : his studies in the Flanginios School of Venice, his activity in Constantinople close to the Russian ambassador, Tolstoi, and, continuing, his life in Moldavia at the court
of Nicholas Mavrocordatos and Dimitrius Cantémir after, whose children he
taught. This continued to be the reason for his activity in Russia, when, in 1711
he was installed with the Cantémir family. Athanassios Skiadas, on the other hand, after his studies at the Flanginios School in Venice, and at Padua, was employed in 1716 in the service of Peter the Great. In Moscow he was involved in the political administration, but side by side with this, following the suggestion of Kontoidis, he was the first who occupied himself with the cataloguing of Greek and Slavonic codices of the Synodical Library of Moscow—his catalogue was published in 1722. From 1722-1725 he taught in the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy of Moscow and in 1737 returned to Venice, where he remained until 1750. Here in 1737 he published the biography of Peter the Great. In 1750 he returned to Russia where he died c. 1796.
Diaspora at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the following
century : the Corfiot Athanassios Kontoidis and the Cephalonian Athanassios
Skiadas. They are examined together because they lived and worked together
for a large period of time in the same area: namely, in the Russia of Peter the
Great; they are considered as the forerunners of the Modern Greek Enlightenment. The life and works of Kontoidis are examined firstly : his studies in the Flanginios School of Venice, his activity in Constantinople close to the Russian ambassador, Tolstoi, and, continuing, his life in Moldavia at the court
of Nicholas Mavrocordatos and Dimitrius Cantémir after, whose children he
taught. This continued to be the reason for his activity in Russia, when, in 1711
he was installed with the Cantémir family. Athanassios Skiadas, on the other hand, after his studies at the Flanginios School in Venice, and at Padua, was employed in 1716 in the service of Peter the Great. In Moscow he was involved in the political administration, but side by side with this, following the suggestion of Kontoidis, he was the first who occupied himself with the cataloguing of Greek and Slavonic codices of the Synodical Library of Moscow—his catalogue was published in 1722. From 1722-1725 he taught in the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy of Moscow and in 1737 returned to Venice, where he remained until 1750. Here in 1737 he published the biography of Peter the Great. In 1750 he returned to Russia where he died c. 1796.
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