Constantine Rodocanachi (1635–1687) (also known as Constantine Rhodocanaces, Constantine Rhodocanakis and Konstantinos Rhodokanakis) was an
Ottoman Greek
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physician
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to
Charles II of England
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Charles II was the eldest surviving child of ...
,
chemist
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,
lexicographer
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and
academic
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. Rodocanachi was born on the island of
Chios
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on 5 December 1635 and lived much of his life in
London
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.
Rodocanachi worked on the 1685 version of ''Lexicon manuale Græco-Latinum, & Latino-Græcum'' with
Cornelis Schrevel and
Joseph Hill (lexicographer)
Joseph Hill (October 1625 – 5 November 1707) was an English academic and nonconformist clergyman, mostly in the Netherlands after 1662. He is known as a lexicographer.
Life
He was born at Bramley, near Leeds, Yorkshire, in October 1625. His ...
. Rodocanachi also compounded his own medicines and sold them in
London
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and abroad. He published a pamphlet titled ''Alexicacus, Spirit of Salt of the World'' in 1664, which promoted his
panacea (medicine)
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salt solution.
Personal life
Rodocanachi was the son of Dimitrios Rodocanachi (1592–1664) and Theodora. In 1667, Rodocanachi married Arietta Coressi (1653–1693), daughter of Antonio Coressi and Viera Visconti. The couple had at least three children: Constantine (1667–1689), who died in
Cambridge
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; Loula (1672–1710), who was born in Chios and married Frangoulis Rodocanachi (1666–1753); and Maria (1678–1688), who was born and died in
London
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. Constantine Rodocanachi died in
Amsterdam
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on 13 August 1687.
[See Christopher Long’s archival entry]
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Published works
* Constantine Rhodocanaces, ''A Discourse in the Praise of Antimonie, and the Vertues thereof'', self-published, London, 1664
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* Constantine Rhodocanaces, ''Alexicacus, Spirit of Salt of the World'', R. D., London, 1664
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* Constantine Rhodocanaces, ''Carmina Græca Rythmica Gratulatoria'', A. & L. Lichfield, Oxford, 1660
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* Constantine Rhodocanaces, ''Life and writings of Constantine Rhodocanakis, a prince of the Imperial Houses of Doucas, Angelus, Comnenus, Paleologus, and honorary physician to Charles II, King of England, France and Ireland'', The Printing House of the Journal of Debates, Athens, 1872
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* Cornelis Schrevel, Joseph Hill & Constantine Rhodocanaces, ''Lexicon manuale Græco-Latinum, & Latino-Græcum: Primo concinnatum, Térque editum'', Joan. Hayes, Cambridge, 1685
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See Also
*Christopher Angelus
Christopher Angelus (Gastune, 157? - Oxford 1 February 1638), or Christophoros Angelos (Christopher Angel) was a native Greek of the Peloponnesus, who was persecuted by the Ottoman governor of Athens. Like several of his compatriots, he found re ...
*Spiridione Roma
Spiridione Roma ( – 15 June 1786), also known as Spiridon or Spyridon Romas ( el, Σπυρίδων Ρώμας), was a Greek painter from Corfu. He was a prominent member of the Heptanese School. His contemporary was Spyridon Sperantza ...
References
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1635 births
1687 deaths
17th-century Greek physicians
Writers from Chios
Greek lexicographers