Andreas Moustoxydis ( el, Ανδρέας Μουστοξύδης, January 6, 1785 – July 29, 1860), sometimes Latinized as Mustoxydes or in the Italian form Andrea Mustoxidi, was a Greek

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

from

Corfu Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra ( el, Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, , ; ; la, Corcyra.) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The isl ...

. He studied at

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

, and in 1804 published a treatise on the history of Corfu titled ''Notizie per servire alla storia Corcirese dai tempi eroici al secolo XII''. This publication led to employment as historiographer of the Ionian Islands, a position he maintained until 1819. As a young man, he undertook an extended scientific journey to

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, followed by travels to

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and

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. In Italy, he discovered manuscripts of the rhetorician

Isocrates Isocrates (; grc, Ἰσοκράτης ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education throu ...

at the Ambrosian and Laurentian libraries. In the meantime, he published a two-volume work on the history of Corfu called ''Illustrazioni Corciresi'' (1811–14). In 1820, he was appointed secretary to the Russian envoy at

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, and nine years later was named director of education by Greek president Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776-1831). Following Kapodistrias' murder, he returned to Corfu, and was restored to his former position as historiographer. Here, he founded the philological/historical journal ''Hellenomnemon''. At the time of his death, he was director of the department of education at Ionian Academy. As a philologist, Mustoxydis edited seven of Isocrates' orations, the

scholia Scholia (singular scholium or scholion, from grc, σχόλιον, "comment, interpretation") are grammatical, critical, or explanatory comments – original or copied from prior commentaries – which are inserted in the margin of th ...

of Olympiodorus on

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

, and in collaboration with Demetrios Schinas of

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

, he published a five volume edition of Ambrosian Anecdota. In addition, he was author of an Italian translation of

Herodotus Herodotus ( ; grc, , }; BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria ( Italy). He is known f ...

(1822), and also published a number of papers on the 2nd century author

Polyaenus Polyaenus or Polyenus ( ; see ae (æ) vs. e; grc-gre, Πoλύαινoς, Polyainos, "much-praised") was a 2nd-century CE Greek author, known best for his ''Stratagems in War'' ( grc-gre, Στρατηγήματα, Strategemata), which has been pr ...

. He was elected as a member to the

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in 1843.

References

translated biography @ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
A History of Classical Scholarship
by John Edwin Sandys {{DEFAULTSORT:Moustoxydis, Andreas 1785 births 1860 deaths 19th-century Greek historians Greek philologists Writers from Corfu