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Adamantios Korais

1748 - 1833

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Adamantios Korais or Koraïs (Greek: Ἀδαμάντιος Κοραῆς [aðaˈmandi.os koraˈis]; Latin: Adamantius Coraes; French: Adamance Coray; 27 April 1748 – 6 April 1833) was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and the emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as Katharevousa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adamantios Korais has received more than 211,293 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Adamantios Korais is the 1,624th most popular writer (up from 1,694th in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 575th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Turkish Writer.

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Notable Works

Mémoire Sur l'état Actuel de la Civilisation Dans la Grèce...
2023

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adamantios Korais ranks 1,624 out of 7,302. Before him are Adèle Hugo, Eupolis, Marquis de Custine, Ibn al-Farid, Jean de Meun, and Mary of Jesus of Ágreda. After him are Sebastian Haffner, Gore Vidal, Anonymus, Oribasius, Posidippus, and Jurji Zaydan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Adamantios Korais ranks 14. Before him are Claude Louis Berthollet, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Christian Gottlob Neefe, and Petar I Petrović-Njegoš. After him are Benedict Joseph Labre, Dominique, comte de Cassini, Anders Sparrman, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. Among people deceased in 1833, Adamantios Korais ranks 17. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Pierre André Latreille, Abbas Mirza, and Michał Kleofas Ogiński. After him are Edmund Kean, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, René Louiche Desfontaines, Rahel Varnhagen, Antoni Radziwiłł, and Ferdinand Hérold.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Adamantios Korais ranks 472 out of 1,347. Before him are Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873), Demetrios I of Constantinople (1914), Eutychius of Constantinople (512), Manuel I of Trebizond (1218), Édouard Balladur (1929), and Crates of Mallus (-200). After him are Oribasius (325), Gerasimus of the Jordan (500), Theodore Metochites (1270), Theodore of Mopsuestia (350), Yousuf Karsh (1908), and Scylax of Caryanda (-600).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Adamantios Korais ranks 45. Before him are Adnan Oktar (1956), Alexander Polyhistor (-100), Namık Kemal (1840), Yaşar Kemal (1923), Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti (1929), and Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873). After him are Oribasius (325), Nicander (-250), Quintus Smyrnaeus (400), Eustathius of Thessalonica (1101), Petros Markaris (1937), and Quadratus of Athens (100).

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