Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles

Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (Greek: Ευαγγελινός Αποστολίδης Σοφοκλής; March 8, 1807 – December 17, 1883) was a Greek Orthodox monk, professor of classics and Modern Greek at Harvard University, and lexicographer.[1][2][3][4] He was born in Tsangarada, Thessaly, Ottoman Empire, and he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[5] and is considered to be a pioneer of Modern Greek studies.[6]

Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles
Ευαγγελινός Αποστολίδης Σοφοκλής
Born	(1807-03-08)March 8, 1807 Tsangarada, Thessaly, Ottoman Empire
Died	December 17, 1883(1883-12-17) (aged 76) Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Academic work
Discipline	Classicist
Sub-discipline	Modern Greek
Institutions	Harvard University

Selected works

• A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners. Hartford, 1835; (Digitized).
• A Romaic Grammar. Hartford, 1842; (Digitized); revised edition 1860.
• A Catalogue of Greek Verbs for the Use of Colleges. Hartford, 1844; (Digitized).
• Romaic or Modern Greek Grammar. Boston, 1857, (Digitized).
• History of the Greek alphabet with remarks on Greek orthography and pronunciation. George Nichols, Cambridge, 1848, (Digitized).
• History of the Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation. Cambridge, 1848; Second edition, revised. John Bartlett, Cambridge, 1854, (Digitized).
• A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek. Cambridge, 1860, (Digitized).
• Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100. Boston, 1870; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1887, (Digitized). Reprinted: Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1914; New York, 1957 in two volumes.

References

1. A. C. Zenos: Sophocles’ Greek Lexicon, in: The Classical Review, Bd. 4, H. 1/2 (1890), Ss. 41–44. Review: Sophocles's Greek Lexicon.
2. Biographical article in National Herald, NY, (2015). Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles: The Ascetic of Harvard College.
3. History of the Program of Modern Greek Studies, Harvard University.
4. Yale University Historical Register.
5. Obituary in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 19 (May, 1883 – May, 1884), pp. 502–504. JSTOR online.
6. D. C. Hesserling, "Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles", Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Letterkunde, Ser. 4, 59 (1925), Part 7.

Sources

• Meyer Reinhold's entry in the Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars
• Ancient Greek Wikipedia
• M Paraschos (2011): Boston Greeks, Boston. link including The New York Times (18 December 1883) and The Boston Globe obituaries.
• George Herbert Palmer, "Reminiscences of Professor Sophocles", Atlantic Monthly 67 (1891) 779–88 online
• George C. Soulis, Euaggelinos Apostolides Sophokles (Athens, 1952);
• Albert S. Weston, BDAE, 1218–9; WhAmHS 567.

• Leber, George. History of the Order of AHEPA 1922-1972. Order of AHEPA.