Prof. Runnels publishes blog post about “How Modern Greek Came to America”
Prof. Runnels, an expert in Palaeolithic archaeology in Greece, contributes to From the Archivist’s Notebook a story about how Americans first heard Modern Greek being spoken in the early 19th century. An aficionado of antiquarian shops, Prof. Runnels has frequently discovered unique documents of great historical and informational value, such as the four documents presented in this post, which tell us the story of a Greek merchant, Nikolaos Tziklitiras, who, after landing by accident in Boston in 1813, became the first Greek teacher in town and laid the foundations for the spread of Modern Greek studies in America.
Read his post here.