RHANKAVES (commonly also RHANGABE), ALEXANDROS RHIZOS (1810-1892)  , Greek savant, poet and statesman, was born at Constantinople of a Phanariot family on the 25th of December 181o . He was educated at Odessa and the military school at Munich . Having served as an officer of artillery in the Bavarian army, he returned to Greece, where he held several high educational and administrative appointments . He subsequently became ambassador at Washington (1867), Paris (1868), and Berlin (1874-1886), and was one of the Greek plenipotentiaries at the congress of 1878 . After his recall he lived at Athens, where he died on the 29th of June 1892 . He was the chief representative of a school of literary men whose object was to restore as far as possible the ancient classical language . Of his various works, Hellenic Antiquities (1842-1855, of great value for epigraphical purposes), Archaeologia (1865-1866), an illustrated Archaeological Lexicon (1888-1891), and a History of Modern Greek Literature (1877) are of the most interest to scholars . He wrote also the following dramatic pieces: The Marriage of Kutrules (comedy), Dukas (tragedy), the Thirty Tyrants, The Eve (of the Greek revolution); the romances, The Prince of Morea, Leila, and The Notary of Argostoli; and translated portions of Dante, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe and Shakespeare . A complete edition of his philological works in nineteen volumes was published at Athens (1874-1890), and his 'Aaoµvnaovebaara(Memoirs) appeared posthumously in 1894-1895 .