Andreas Mustoxydis, sometimes spelled as Andrea Mustoxidi was a Greek

Greeks

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 historian

Historian

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 and philologist from Corfu

Corfu

Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...

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He studied at Pavia

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, 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

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 of the Ionian Islands

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, a position he maintained until 1819. As a young man he undertook an extended scientific journey to Italy, followed by travels to France and Germany. In Italy he discovered manuscripts of the rhetorician Isocrates

Isocrates

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 at the Ambrosian and Laurentian libraries

Laurentian Library

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, and also 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 Turin

Turin

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, and nine years later was named Director of Education by Greek president Ioannis Kapodistrias

Ioannis Kapodistrias

Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias |Academy of Athens]] Critical Observations about the 6th-Grade History Textbook"): "3.2.7. Σελ. 40: Δεν αναφέρεται ότι ο Καποδίστριας ήταν Κερκυραίος ευγενής." "...δύο ιστορικούς της Aκαδημίας κ.κ...

 (1776-1831). After Kapodistrias' death, he returned to Corfu and was restored to his former position as historiographer. Here he founded the philological/historical journal Hellenomnemon, and at the time of his death was director of the department of education at Ionian Academy

Ionian Academy

The Ionian Academy was the first Greek academic institution established in modern times and it is located in Corfu. It was established by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford in 1824. It is also considered the precursor of the Ionian University. It had Philological, Law and Medical Schools.The...

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As a philologist, Mustoxydis edited seven of Isocrates' orations, the scholia of Olympiodorus

Olympiodorus the Younger

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 on Plato

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, and in collaboration with Demetrios Schinas of Constantinople

Constantinople

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

Herodotus

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

Polyaenus

Polyaenus or Polyenus vs. e]]; , "many proverbs") was a 2nd century Macedonian author, known best for his Stratagems in War , which has been preserved. The Suda calls him a rhetorician, and Polyaenus himself writes that he was accustomed to plead causes before the emperor...

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