Alexandros Pallis ( el, Αλέξανδρος Πάλλης; 15 March 1851, in
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saron ...
– 17 March 1935, in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
) 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.
Pallis was an
Arvanite
Arvanites (; Arvanitika: , or , ; Greek: , ) are a bilingual population group in Greece of Albanian origin. They traditionally speak Arvanitika, an Albanian language variety, along with Greek. Their ancestors were first recorded as settler ...
.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
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, including his own translations of
Homer
Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...
.
Pallis considered it was "common sense" that
John the Baptist
John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ...
was a vegetarian.
[James A. Kelhoffer ''The diet of John the Baptist: "Locusts and wild honey" in synoptic and patristic interpretation''. p19 (2005) ]
The politician and historian
Alexandros Anastasios Pallis (1883–1975), the ecologist
Marietta Pallis
Marietta Pallis (1882–1963) was a Greek-Briton ecologist and botanical artist. She is noted for research in aquatic botany, especially the Norfolk Broads and the Danube Delta as well as her creation of devotional landscapes.
Biography
Pallis ...
, and the Tibetan traveller
Marco Pallis
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* Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor
* Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin
* Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish ...
were his children.
See also
*
Neophytos Vamvas
Neophytos Vamvas ( el, Νεόφυτος Βάμβας; 1770 – 9 January 1856) was a priest, philosopher, philologist, author, professor, and dean. He was the first dean of the philosophical school at the University of Athens. He is known for b ...
*
Maximos of Gallipoli Maximos of Gallipoli ( el, Μάξιμος Καλλιπολίτης; la, Maximus Callipolites; died 1633) was a hieromonk who made the first translation of the New Testament into modern Greek after 1629. This was at the initiative of the reforming ...
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1851 births
1935 deaths
Translators of the Bible into Modern Greek
Writers from Piraeus
Greek translators
New Athenian School
Greek emigrants to the United Kingdom
Writers from Liverpool