Constantine Rodocanachi
{{Short description|Ottoman Greek physician, chemist and lexicographer}}
Constantine Rodocanachi, also Rhodocanaces or Rhodocanakis ({{langx|el|Κωνσταντίνος Ροδοκανάκης|Konstantinos Rodokanakis}}; 1635–1687) was an Ottoman Greek physician to Charles II of England, chemist, lexicographer and academic.John Penrose Barron, From Samos to Soho: The Unorthodox Life of Joseph Georgirenes, a Greek Archbishop, Peter Lang, Oxford & Bern, 2017, 154-5 & 172.For Rodocanachi as Charles II’s physician see: William Oldys, Samuel Johnson, Michel Maittaire & Thomas Osborne, Catalogus Bibliothecæ Harleianæ: In Locos communes distributus cum Indice Auctorum, Vol. II, Thomas Osborne, London, 1743, p. 792. Rodocanachi was born on the island of Chios on 5 December 1635 and lived much of his life in London.[http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/gen/rodocanachigen/fg03/fg03_406.html See Christopher Long’s archival entry]
Rodocanachi worked on the 1685 version of Lexicon manuale Græco-Latinum, & Latino-Græcum with Cornelis Schrevel and Joseph Hill (lexicographer).See Schrevel, Cornelis, Hill, Joseph & Rhodocanaces, Constantine, Lexicon manuale Græco-Latinum, & Latino-Græcum: Primo concinnatum, Térque editum, Joan. Hayes, Cambridge, 1685. [https://books.google.com/books?id=M7dgAAAAcAAJ] Rodocanachi also compounded his own medicines and sold them in London and abroad.Barron, From Samos to Soho, 172. He published a pamphlet titled Alexicacus, Spirit of Salt of the World in 1664, which promoted his panacea (medicine) salt solution.Barron, From Samos to Soho, 154-55.
Personal life
Rodocanachi was the son of Dimitrios Rodocanachi (1592–1664) and Theodora. In 1667, Rodocanachi married Arietta Coressi (1653–1693), daughter of Antonio Coressi and Viera Visconti. The couple had at least three children: Constantine (1667–1689), who died in Cambridge; Loula (1672–1710), who was born in Chios and married Frangoulis Rodocanachi (1666–1753); and Maria (1678–1688), who was born and died in London. Constantine Rodocanachi died in Amsterdam on 13 August 1687.[http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/gen/rodocanachigen/fg03/fg03_406.html See Christopher Long’s archival entry]
Published works
- Constantine Rhodocanaces, A Discourse in the Praise of Antimonie, and the Vertues thereof, self-published, London, 1664. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4M9ngAACAAJ See in Google Books]
- Constantine Rhodocanaces, Alexicacus, Spirit of Salt of the World, R. D., London, 1664. [https://books.google.com/books?id=R7BjAAAAcAAJ See in Google Books]
- Constantine Rhodocanaces, Carmina Græca Rythmica Gratulatoria, A. & L. Lichfield, Oxford, 1660. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uFhpAAAAcAAJ See in Google Books]
- Constantine Rhodocanaces, Life and writings of Constantine Rhodocanakis, a prince of the Imperial Houses of Doucas, Angelus, Comnenus, Paleologus, and honorary physician to Charles II, King of England, France and Ireland, The Printing House of the Journal of Debates, Athens, 1872. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2nYnZJDbciQC See in Google Books]
- Cornelis Schrevel, Joseph Hill & Constantine Rhodocanaces, Lexicon manuale Græco-Latinum, & Latino-Græcum: Primo concinnatum, Térque editum, Joan. Hayes, Cambridge, 1685. [https://books.google.com/books?id=M7dgAAAAcAAJ See in Google Books]
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