Adamántios Koraïs

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Born	April 27, 1748 • Turkey
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

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Alexander Pope

English author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Sadeq Hedayat

Iranian author

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