Andreas Moustoxydis | |
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Ανδρέας Μουστοξύδης | |
 Posthumous portrait (1875–1909) printed in Italy | |
| Born | (1785-10-06)6 October 1785 |
| Died | 29 July 1860(1860-07-29) (aged 75) |
| Nationality | Greek |
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| Known for | First director of the Greeknational archaeological museum |
Andreas Moustoxydis (Greek:Ανδρέας Μουστοξύδης, 6 January 1785[1] – 29 July 1860), sometimesLatinized asMustoxydes or in the Italian formAndrea Mustoxidi, was a Greekhistorian andphilologist fromCorfu.
Moustoxydis studied atPavia, and in 1804 published a treatise on the history of Corfu titledNotizie per servire alla storia Corcirese dai tempi eroici al secolo XII. This publication led to employment ashistoriographer of theIonian Islands, a position he maintained until 1819.
As a young man, he undertook an extended scientific journey toItaly, followed by travels toFrance andGermany. In Italy, he discovered manuscripts of therhetoricianIsocrates at theAmbrosian andLaurentian libraries. In the meantime, he published a two-volume work on the history of Corfu calledIllustrazioni Corciresi (1811–14).
In 1820, he was appointed secretary to the Russian envoy atTurin, and nine years later was named director of education by Greek presidentIoannis Kapodistrias. He was further named, in October 1829, as 'director andephor' of the first Greeknational archaeological museum, then on the island ofAegina.[2]
Following Kapodistrias' murder in 1831, he returned to Corfu, and was restored to his former position as historiographer. Here, he founded the philological and historical journalHellenomnemon. At the time of his death, he was director of the department of education atIonian Academy.
As a philologist, Mustoxydis edited seven of Isocrates' orations, thescholia ofOlympiodorus onPlato, and in collaboration with Demetrios Schinas ofConstantinople, he published a five volume edition ofAmbrosian Anecdota. In addition, he was author of an Italian translation ofHerodotus (1822), and also published a number of papers on the 2nd century authorPolyaenus.
He was elected as a member to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1843.[3]
