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MINAS [MINOIDES] (c. 1790-186o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 501 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MINAS [MINOIDES] (c. 1790-186o)  , See also:Greek See also:scholar, was a native of See also:Macedonia . During the Greek See also:War of See also:Independence he migrated to See also:Paris, where he tried to enlist the sympathies of See also:Europe on behalf of his countrymen and to promote the study of See also:ancient and See also:modern Greek . But his See also:chief claim to recognition consists in his See also:discovery of two important See also:MSS . (amongst others) in the monastery of Mt See also:Athos during his exploration of the See also:libraries of See also:Turkey and See also:Asia, at the instance of M . See also:Villemain, See also:minister of public instruction in See also:France . One of these contained the last See also:part of a See also:treatise on the Refutation of all Heresies, now generally admitted to be the See also:work of See also:Hippolytus (q.v.), the other the greater portion of the Fables of See also:Babrius .

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