Background
Athanasios Christopoulos was born at Castoria in Macedonia in 1772.
Athanasios Christopoulos was born at Castoria in Macedonia in 1772.
Athanasios Christopoulos studied at Buda and Padua, and became teacher of the children of the Vlach prince Mourousi.
After the fall of that prince in 181X, Christopoulos was employed by Prince Caradja, who had been appointed hospodar of Moldavia and Walachia, in drawing up a code of laws for that country. On the removal of Caradja, he retired into private life and devoted himself to literature. He is also the author of a tragedy, of Politika Parattela (a comparison of various systems of government), of translations of Homer and Herodotus, and of some philological works on the connexion between ancient and modern Greek. His Hellenika Archaiologemata (Athens, 1853) contains an account of his life.
Filiki Eteria.