Alexandros Rizos Rangavis

Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, born in Constantinople on 27 December 1809, the son of a Phanariot scholar, spent his childhood, from 1813 to 1821, in Bucharest, at the court of the prince of Wallachia, who was his relative, and then in Brașov. Trained at the military school in Munich, he served as an officer during the War of Independence, then settled in Athens. There he founded the journal Pandora in 1849, which he edited until 1855, taught archaeology at the university and served as minister of foreign affairs. He left his chair in 1867 for diplomacy, which took him to Washington, Paris and Berlin, and died in Athens on 16 January 1892.

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