page_title: Athanasios Christopoulos
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Athanasios Christopoulos / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Ελληνικά: Αθανάσιος Χριστόπουλος (1772-1847): Έλληνας ποιητής και συγγραφέας, εικονογράφηση από το Ημερολόγιον Σκόκου του 1888. English: Athanasios Christopoulos (1772-1874): Greek poet and writer, illustration from Imerologion Skokou 1888.
context_page_description: Athanasios Christopoulos was a Greek poet, scholar and jurist.
context_section_description: Christopoulos was born in Kastoria in Macedonia. He studied at Buda and Padua, and became  tutor to the children of Alexander Mourousis, Prince of Wallachia. After the fall of that prince in 1811, Christopoulos was employed by John Caradja, who had been appointed hospodar 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 promoting the Demotiki (of the people) form of Greek language. He wrote drinking songs and love ditties which were very popular among the Greeks. He is also the author of a tragedy, of Politika Parallela (a comparison of various systems of government), of translations of Homer and Heraclitus, and of some philological works on the connection between ancient and modern Greek.
  His Hellenika Archaiologemata (Athens, 1853) contains an account of his life. Thomas K. Papathomas (1872-1936), a poet from Kastoria himself, published Christopoulos's "Complete Works" ("Χριστοποὐλου Ἀπαντα" in Greek) in 1931-1932 in Thessaloniki (Spyros Syros Press).
  He died in Bucharest in 1847.
caption: Athanasios Christopoulos
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