Athanasios Christopoulos (1772–1847), Greek poet, was born at Kastoria

Kastoria

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 in Macedonia

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.

He studied at Buda

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 and Padua

Padua

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, and became tutor to the children of Alexander Mourousis

Alexander Mourousis

Alexander Mourousis was a Great Dragoman of the Ottoman Empire who served as Prince of Moldavia and Prince of Wallachia. Open to Enlightenment ideas, and noted for his interest in hydrological engineering, Mourousis was forced to deal with the intrusions of Osman Pazvantoğlu's rebellious troops...

, Prince of Wallachia. After the fall of that prince in 1811, Christopoulos was employed by John Caradja, who had been appointed hospodar

Hospodar

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of Walachia, in drawing up a code of laws for that country.

On the removal of Caradja, Christopoulos retired into private life and devoted himself to literature

Literature

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. He wrote drinking songs and love ditties which are very popular among the Greeks

Greeks

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. He is also the author of a tragedy

Tragedy

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, of Politika Parallela (a comparison of various systems of government), of translations of Homer

Homer

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 and Heraclitus

Heraclitus

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, and of some philological works on the connection between ancient and modern Greek.

His Hellenika Archaiologemata (Athens, 1853) contains an account of his life.

• List of Macedonians (Greek)