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Konstantinos Vardalachos
Rhetorical art
Vienna: By the Printing House of Ioannis Schnirer, 1815 Library of the Hellenic Parliament
KONSTANTINOS VARDALACHOS (1755- 1830), coming from the island of Chios, had studied medicine in Padua of Italy. Then he taught philosophy, mathematics and experimental physics in the Greek Schools of Bucharest, Chios and Odessa. In 1830 he re- ceived a proposal by the Governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias, to undertake the administration of the School of Aegina, which he accepted. However, in a dramatic turn of fate, he drowned on his journey from Syros to Aegina.
He was an admirer of Adamantios Korais and one of the initiators of innovative teaching methods in Greek schools.
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Theoklitos Farmakides
Integrated into the context of the innovative pro- gramme of Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment is also the Ρητορική Τέχνη/Rhetorical Art, which reflects the positions of the Scottish philosopher Hugh Blair, in actual fact introducing in the Greek area the «new Rhetorics» that focus more systematically on issues of elegant speech on the basis of aesthetic param- eters. The treatise belongs to the array of rhetoric textbooks of the time, such as the Aristotelian in character Rhetoric of Konstantinos Oikonomos of the Oikonomoi (Vienna 1813), and that of Neofytos Vamvas (Paris 1813).
Elements of the Greek language for use in the Schools of Greece, vol. I Vienna: By the Printing House of Ioan. Varth. Tsvekiu, 1815
Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THEOKLITOS FARMAKIDES (1784-1860), a scholar clergyman, pioneer newspaper writer and fighter of the Greek Revolution, had been, among other things, editor of the newspaper Λόγιος Ερμής/ Logios Hermes and of the first Greek newspaper to appear on liberated ground, entitled Ελληνική Σάλπιγξ/The Greek Trumpet.
Apart from his work in domain of editions, Farmakides was elected as plenipotentiary in several National Assemblies and undertook important administrative offices, such as Ephor/Supervisor of «the education and moral upbringing of children», member of the Ar- eopagus/Supreme Court of Eastern Greece, Director of the National Printing House et al.
In his work Στοιχεία της Ελληνικής Γλώσσης/ Ele- ments of the Greek Language he translates Friedrich Jacobs’ work Elementarbuch der Griechischen Sprache für Anfänger, in its fourth edition of 1812, dedicating his translation to «the Greek youth», with the coun- try’s righteous hopes for learning and progress.
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