Argyropulos

Argyropulos, (1) JOANNES, one of the earliest teachers of Greek learning in the West, born at Constantinople in 1416, settled finally in Italy after the fall of his native city in 1453. He taught first at Florence, and here among his pupils were the son and grandson of Cosmo de' Medici; but on the outbreak of the plague in 1471 he repaired to Rome, and there he died, probably in 1486. From his school came many learned men, among them Poliziano and Reuchlin.—(2) PERIKLES, a Greek publicist, born September 17, 1809, at Constantinople, became professor of Jurisprudence at Athens in 1837, and soon made himself more notable than popular with the court party as a promoter of constitutional state reform in Greece, especially through his journal Anamorphosis. Elected to the Chamber in 1843, he was foreign minister from May 1854 to September 1855, when he returned to his academic chair. He died December 22, 1860.