Adamantios Korais, Lettres inédites de Coray à Chardon de La Rochette, 1877

Lettres inédites de Coray à Chardon de La Rochette

(1790-1796) 

suivies d’ un receuil de ses lettres françaises à divers savants, de sa dissertation sur le Testament secret des Athéniens, 

du Mémoire sur l’ état de la civilization dans la Grèce en 1803 

et

de ses thèses latines de médecine reimprimées pour la première fois.

 

ADAMANTIOS KORAIS

Unpublished letters from Korais to Chardon de La Rochette

(1760-1796)

followed by

a collection of his French letters to various scholars, his dissertation on the Secret Testament of the 

Athenians,

the Memoir on the state of civilization in Greece in 1803

and

his Latin theses on medicine reprinted for the first time.

 

Published by Firmin Ditot, Paris, 1877

 

With a lithographic portrait of Korais and an identical note from him outside the text

 

First Edition 

Contemporary Half Leather Binding with preserved Cover pages. 

8th, XXXIX + 606 pp. 

 

Adamantios Korais or Koraïs (Greek: Ἀδαμάντιος Κοραῆς; 1748 – 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. Encyclopædia Britannica asserts that “his influence on the modern Greek language and culture has been compared to that of Dante on Italian and Martin Luther on German”.