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CORALS (KoRAis), ADAMANTIOS [in See also:French, DIAMANT CORAY] (1748–1833)  , See also:Greek See also:scholar and patriot, was See also:born at See also:Smyrna, the son of a See also:merchant . As a schoolboy he distinguished himself in the study of See also:ancient Greek, but from 1772 to 1779 he was occupied with the management of his See also:father's business affairs in See also:Amsterdam . In 1782, on the collapse of his father's business, he went to See also:Montpellier, where for six years he studied See also:medicine, supporting himself by translating See also:German and See also:English medical See also:works into See also:French . He then settled in See also:Paris, where he lived until his See also:death on the loth of See also:April 1833 . Inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, he devoted himself to furthering the cause of Greek See also:independence both among the Greeks themselves and by awakening the See also:interest of the See also:chief See also:European See also:Powers against the See also:Turkish See also:rule . His See also:great See also:object was to rouse the See also:enthusiasm of the Greeks for the See also:idea that they were the true descendants of the ancient Hellenes by teaching them to regard as their own See also:inheritance 'the great works of antiquity . He sought to purify the See also:ordinary written See also:language by eliminating the more obvious barbarisms, and by enriching it with classical words and others invented in strict accordance with classical tradition (see further GREEK LANGUAGE: See also:modern) . Under his See also:influence, though the See also:common See also:patois was practically untouched, the language of literature and intellectual inter-course was made to approximate to the pure See also:Attic of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C . His chief works are his See also:editions of Greek authors contained in his `EXXrlvuci7 B1/3X1oti7url and his llapepya; his editions of the Characters of See also:Theophrastus, of the De are, aquis, et locis of See also:Hippocrates, and of the Aethiopica of See also:Heliodorus, elaborately annotated . His See also:literary remains have been edited by Mamoukas and Damalas (1881–1887); collections of letters written from Paris at the See also:time of the French Revolution have been published (in English, by P . Ralli, 1898; in French, by the See also:Marquis de Queux de See also:Saint-Hilaire, 1880) . His autobiography appeared at Paris (1829; See also:Athens, 1891), and his See also:life has been written by D .

Thereianos (1889–1890); see also A . R . Rhangabe, Histoire litteraire de la Grece moderne (1877) .

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