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Konstantinos Tzechanis (Template:Lang-sq, Template:Lang-el, Template:Lang-la, 1740-1800) was an Albanian philosopher, mathematician and poet from the 18th century Aromanian center of Moscopole.

Life

Tzechanis was born in Moscopole, (now southest Albania) a 18th century cultural and commercial center of the Balkans. He was also known as Kostë Haxhijorgji Xhehani in Albanian or Konstantinos Hadji Georgiou Tzechanis in Greek. He was a student of Theodore Kavalliotis and later attented lessons in Modra, today in Slovakia. At 1760, he moved together with his parents to Vienna, where his father became a merchant there.

Tzechanis became a teacher at the Greek schools of Temesvar, Pest and Zemun. Later in 1768–74 he went to Halle, then a city of the Kingdom of Prussia, to study literature and mathematics, and in 1776 he studied in the University of Cambridge. He also studied in Leipzig for three years and moved to several countries of Western Europe. He also lived in Wallachia, where he composed a satyrical poem.

In 1769 as a student he had written in Latin and Greek a treatise in mathematics entitled Προγύμνασμα Γεωμετρικόν, ήτοι νέα θεωρία τετραγωνισμού του κύκλου, in which he proposed a new theoretical solution to the problem of squaring the circle. Tzechanis also gave to the Swedish linguist Johann Thunmann a copy of Protopireia, one of the most significant works of Kavalliotis, he also assisted Thunmann on his works regarding the Albanian and the Aromanian languages. During his stay in Leyden, Netherlands, Tzechanis composed two large poems in Greek, praising the local Univeristy on the one and the ancient Greek authors on the other.

In the 1770s he wrote in Greek a biography of Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albania, based on Marin Barleti's biography. He taught Latin, Greek and mathematics in Leiden University. His best known poetry work is Έπος ηρωελεγείον προς Αικατερίνην (Heroic Epic to Catherine II of Russia), written in Greek and Latin, a patriotic work that aimed at the national awakening of the Greek people that lived under Ottoman rule (1776). written in Latin and Ancient Greek and published in 1776. He died at 1880 in Leyden .

Work

Tzechani composed the following works:

• Εγχειρίδιον αριθμητικής, (Halle, 1769)
• Έπος ηρωελεγείον εις Βικέντιον Ιωάννοβιτζ τον Τεμεσβαρίου επίσκοπον, (Vienna, 1772)
• Έπος εις τον κόμητα Φραγκίσκον Κολλάριον, (1772)
• Έπος ηρωελεγείον εις τον Κωνσταντίνον Αλέξανδρον φιλιππίδην τον Γάιον, (1773)
• Έπος ηρωελεγείον εις τον κραταιότατον και αήττητον των Ρωμαίων αυτοκράτορα, (Halle, 1773)
• Προγύμνασμα γεωμετρικόν, ήτοι νέα θεωρία τετραγωνισμού του κύκλου, (1774)
• Έπος ηρωελεγείον προς Αικατερίνη Β΄, (Leyden, 1776)
• Έπη δύο (Lugduni Batanorum), (Leyden, 1776)
• Ποίημα σαπφικόν εις τον ελλογιμώτατον και ευγενέστατον Σκαρλάτον τον Στούρλαν, (Vienna, 1777)
• Επίγραμμα ηρωελεγείον εις τον ιερομονάχοις… εφημέριον Άνθιμον…, (Vienna)
• Έπος σαπφικόν εις την γενέθλιον ημέραν του βασιλέως των Πρώσσων Φρεδερίκου Β΄
• Δύο επιγράμματα προς τον ηγεμόνα Υψηλάντην, (Leipzig)
• Γραμματική του Ρενίου, (translation)
• Κανόνας του ορθού και τιμίου βίου, (translation)
• Κατήχησις του Πλάτωνος, (translation)

Sources

1. Clogg, Richard (1981). Balkan society in the age of Greek independence. MacMillan Press. p. 75. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
2. Peyfuss, Max Demeter (1989). Die Druckerei von Moschopolis, 1731-1769: Buchdruck und Heiligenverehrung im Erzbistum Achrida (in German). Böhlau. p. 223.
3. ^ Apostolos Euangelou Vakalopoulos. History of Macedonia, 1354-1833. Institute for Balkan Studies, 1973, p. 408.
4. Amburger, Erik; Cieśla, Michał; Sziklay, László (1976). Wissenschaftspolitik im Mittel- und Osteuropa: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften, Akademien und Hochschulen im 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert (in German). Hobbing. p. 121. ISBN 9783921515006.
5. ^ Lloshi, Xhevat (2008). Rreth Alfabetit Të Shqipes (in Albanian). Logos-A. p. 279. ISBN 9989582688.
6. Max Demeter Peyfuss. Die Druckerei von Moschopolis, 1731-1769: Buchdruck und Heiligenverehrung im Erzbistum Achrida. Böhlau, 1989, ISBN 9783205052937, p. 151 "war gleichfalls Moschopolit und kannte Kaballiotes"
7. Emanuel Turczynski. Die deutsch-grieschischen Kulturbeziehungen bis zur Berufung König Ottos. R. Oldenbourg, 1959, p. 174
8. Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, Volume 48. 1959, p. 85
9. ^ Τζεχάνης Κωνσταντίνος . Ελληνομνήμων. University of Athens database.
10. Κεκριδής Ευστάθιος (1989). "Θεόδωρος Αναστασίου Καβαλλιώτης (1718; 1789). Ο Διδάσκαλος του Γένους". Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 34-35. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
11. Enepekides, Polychronis K. (1960). "Zwei Texte des 18. Jahrhunderts im Wiener Supplementum Graecum". Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik (in German) (9–13). H. Böhlaus: 51–57. Retrieved 2010-09-20. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |quotes=, |laysource=, |laysummary=, |coauthors=, and |month= (help)
12. Title of the Latin version: Carmen heroico-elegiacum, quod temporis praesentis circumstantiarum effectum breviter expositis exponendis, humillime offert Anglis, Belgisque, philomusis generosissimis, ac studiosis nobilissimis

• Albanian writers
• People from Moscopole
• Greek Enlightenment
• 1740 births
• 1800 deaths