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Konstantinos Tzechanis

1740 – 1800

18th-century philosopher, mathematician, and poet

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Lived 1740 – 1800. Konstantinos Tzechanis was a Turkish writer, mathematician and poet.

Konstantinos Tzechanis (, , , 1740–1800) was a philosopher, mathematician and poet from the 18th century Aromanian center of Moscopole.

Life Tzechanis was born in Moscopole (Voskopojë, southeast Albania), an 18th-century cultural and commercial metropolis of the Balkans and center of Greek culture. His ethnicity is disputed, with various sources claiming that he is of Albanian, Aromanian or Greek origin. Tzechanis became a teacher at the Greek schools of Temesvár, 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 geometry, the Introduction to Geometry: new theory of squaring the circle, 1774 , in which he proposed a new theoretical solution to the problem of squaring the circle. he also assisted Thunmann on his works regarding the Albanian and the Aromanian languages. He died at 1800 in Leyden.

Εγχειρίδιον αριθμητικής, (Manual of Mathematics, Halle, 1769) Έπος ηρωελεγείον εις Βικέντιον Ιωάννοβιτζ τον Τεμεσβαρίου επίσκοπον, (Honorary poem to bishop Vincent Jovanovic, Vienna, 1772) Έπος εις τον κόμητα Φραγκίσκον Κολλάριον, (Epic to count Francis Collaro, 1772) Έπος ηρωελεγείον εις τον Κωνσταντίνον Αλέξανδρον φιλιππίδην τον Γάιον, (Honorary poem to Konstantine Alexander, 1773) Έπος ηρωελεγείον εις τον κραταιότατον και αήττητον των Ρωμαίων αυτοκράτορα, (Honorary poem to the mighty and invincible Emperor of the Romans, Halle, 1773) Προγύμνασμα γεωμετρικόν, ήτοι νέα θεωρία τετραγωνισμού του κύκλου, (Introduction to Geometry: new theory of squaring the circle, 1774) Έπος ηρωελεγείον προς Αικατερίνη Β΄, (Honorary poem to Empress Catherine II, Leyden, 1776) Έπη δύο (Lugduni Batanorum), (Two Epics, Leyden, 1776) Ποίημα σαπφικόν εις τον ελλογιμώτατον και ευγενέστατον Σκαρλάτον τον Στούρλαν, (Sapphic poem to scholar and gentleman Scarlato Sturla, Vienna, 1777) Επίγραμμα ηρωελεγείον εις τον ιερομονάχοις... εφημέριον Άνθιμον..., (Honorary epigram to monk and priest Antimos, Vienna) Έπος σαπφικόν εις την γενέθλιον ημέραν του βασιλέως των Πρώσσων Φρεδερίκου Β΄ (Sapphic poem for the birthday of King of Prussia, Frederick II) Δύο επιγράμματα προς τον ηγεμόνα Υψηλάντην, (Two Epigrams to lord Ipsilantis, Leipzig)

Translation from German to Greek: Γραμματική του Ρενίου

Translations from Ancient Greek to German: Κανόνας του ορθού και τιμίου βίου Κατήχησις του Πλάτωνος

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Important facts

Born
1740, Moscopole
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Died
1800, Leiden
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Education
New Academy
Employers
Leiden University

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18th-century philosopher, mathematician, and poet

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Konstantinos Tzechanis was born in 1740 in Moscopole.

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Konstantinos Tzechanis died in 1800 in Leiden.

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Konstantinos Tzechanis was a writer, mathematician and poet.

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Konstantinos Tzechanis was Turkish.

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