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Alexandros Pallis

1850 – 1935

Author and main supporter of demotic Greek

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Lived 1850 – 1935 (aged 85). Alexandros Pallis was a Greek linguist, translator, writer, poet and bible translator.

Alexandros Pallis (; 15 March 1851, in Piraeus – 17 March 1935, in Liverpool) was a Greek educational and language reformer who translated the New Testament into Modern Greek. The publication, in the Akropolis newspaper, caused riots in Athens in 1901 in which 8 people died. His translation was subsequently published in Liverpool. The New Testament in Modern Greek was not legalised until 1924.

An Arvanite, Pallis had lived in Manchester from 1869 to 1875, in India from 1875 to 1894, then in Liverpool until his death. He subsidized from abroad much of the literary and scholarly output in demotic Greek from 1900 until the First World War, including his own translations of Homer.

Pallis considered it was "common sense" that John the Baptist was a vegetarian.

The politician and historian Alexandros Anastasios Pallis (1883–1975), the ecologist Marietta Pallis, and the Tibetan traveller Marco Pallis were his children.

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Alexander Pallis, Alexandros A. Pallēs

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Who was Alexandros Pallis?

author and main supporter of demotic Greek (1851–1935)

When was Alexandros Pallis born?

Alexandros Pallis was born on 17 January 1850 in Piraeus.

When did Alexandros Pallis die?

Alexandros Pallis died on 17 March 1935 in Liverpool.

What was Alexandros Pallis's occupation?

Alexandros Pallis was a linguist, translator, writer, poet and bible translator.

What nationality was Alexandros Pallis?

Alexandros Pallis was Greek.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Alexandros Pallis

· Wikidata: Q2584375

· DBpedia: Alexandros Pallis

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