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Line 1: {{Short description\|Greek man of letters}} {{for\|the patriarch of Constantinople born George\|Gennadius Scholarius}} {{Refimprove\|date=October 2010}} [[File:Georgios Gennadios.jpg\|thumb\|180px\|Georgios Gennadios]] '''Georgios Gennadios''' ({{lang-el\|Γεώργιος Γεννάδιος}},; 1784–1854) was a [[Greeks\|Greek]] man of letters who was instrumental in the founding of some of the first educational establishments of [[modern Greece]], considered among the most important personalities of the [[Modern Greek Enlightenment]]. ==Life== Gennadios was born in 1784 in [[~~Doliana~~Silivri\|Selymbria]], a village in the [[Zagori]] region of [[Epirus]] (or according to another source, in 1786 in [[Selymbria]] in [[Thrace]], where his Epirotan parents went to live for a period). He started his studies in [[Doliana]] and possibly also in [[Monodendri, Ioannina\|Monodendri]]. He continued his studies in the schools of [[Ioannina]] and subsequently in [[Bucharest]] (now capital of Romania, but then part of [[Wallachia]]). In 1804 he began to study [[philology]] at the [[University of Leipzig]] under [[Wilhelm Ernst Weber]]. He returned to Bucharest upon completion of his studies in 1814. At 1815 he became an assistant to [[Neophytos Doukas]], then at the [[Princely Academy of Bucharest]]. In 1817–20 he went to [[Odessa]], following an invitation by the city’s Greek community and by [[Ioannis Kapodistrias]], then Russia's foreign minister, where he helped to found and direct the Greek School of Commerce. In 1820 he returned to Bucharest following an invitation by Prince [[Alexandros Soutzos]] of Wallachia and taught in the city’s schools. That year he also became a member of the [[Filiki Eteria]] revolutionary organization. Following the defeat of [[Alexander Ypsilantis (1792–1828)\|Alexandros Ypsilantis]] in 1821 he went to Odessa and from there to [[Dresden]]. He returned to Greece in 1826 to take part in the [[Greek War of Independence]]. Line 11 ⟶ 13: In 1854, during the [[Crimean War]], he led a revolutionary committee for the liberation of Epirus, his homeland, but died the same year during [[1846–1860 cholera pandemic\|a cholera epidemic]]. Gennadios’ statue was placed in front of the National Library of Greece following the construction of [[Theophil Hansen]]'s neoclassical building to house the collections of the library in 1903. Gennadios's son [[Joannes Gennadius]] was born in 1844 and became a diplomat and bibliophile. When he donated his important book collection to the [[American School of Classical Studies]] in Athens, the building built to house it was named in honor of Georgios as the [[Gennadius Library\|''Gennadeion'']]. ==Works== Line 26 ⟶ 30: {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gennadios, Georgios}} [[Category:~~1784~~1780s births]] [[Category:1854 deaths]] [[Category:People of the Modern Greek Enlightenment]] Line 33 ⟶ 37: [[Category:Deaths from cholera]] [[Category:People from Zagori]] [[Category:19th-century scholars from the Ottoman Empire]]