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RHANKAVES (commonly also RHANGABE), ALEXANDROS RHIZOS (1810-1892) , See also:Greek savant, poet and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Constantinople of a Phanariot See also:family on the 25th of See also:December 181o. He was educated at See also:Odessa and the military school at See also:Munich. Having served as an officer of See also:artillery in the Bavarian See also:army, he returned to See also:Greece, where he held several high educational and administrative appointments. He subsequently became See also:ambassador at See also:Washington (1867), See also:Paris (1868), and See also:Berlin (1874-1886), and was one of the Greek plenipotentiaries at the See also:congress of 1878. After his recall he lived at See also:Athens, where he died on the 29th of See also:June 1892. He was the See also:chief representative of a school of See also:literary men whose See also:object was to restore as far as possible the See also:ancient classical See also:language. Of his various See also:works, Hellenic Antiquities (1842-1855, of See also:great value for epigraphical purposes), Archaeologia (1865-1866), an illustrated Archaeological See also:Lexicon (1888-1891), and a See also:History of See also:Modern Greek Literature (1877) are of the most See also:interest to scholars. He wrote also the following dramatic pieces: The See also:Marriage of Kutrules (See also:comedy), Dukas (tragedy), the See also:Thirty Tyrants, The See also:Eve (of the Greek revolution); the romances, The See also:Prince of Morea, Leila, and The See also:Notary of See also:Argostoli; and translated portions of See also:Dante, See also:Schiller, See also:Lessing, See also:Goethe and See also:Shakespeare. A See also:complete edition of his philological works in nineteen volumes was published at Athens (1874-1890), and his 'Aaoµvnaovebaara(See also:Memoirs) appeared posthumously in 1894-1895.

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