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Athanasios Psalidas

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244:), founded by the bequest of two local merchants, the brothers Lambros and Simon Maroutsis. Psalidas remained at this post for 25 years. During this time he enhanced the school's curriculum by introducing lessons in history, geography, natural sciences, economics and foreign languages. Psalidas also brought with him educational equipment and special instruments in order to teach astronomy and perform a number of chemical and physical experiments. His lessons were not only watched by his students, but also by locals that admired his work. He also equipped the school's library, which was also open to public and hired qualified teaching personnel. Moreover, he offered scholarships to the best of his students. 500: 272: 30: 169: 180:(Αληθής Ευδαιμονία), written in both Greek and Latin. With this work he reestablished fundamental theoretical positions on the existence of God, immortality, afterlife, freedom of man, and the concept of the limits of freedom. 212:(Έρωτος αποτελέσματα), consisting of three romantic stories. This work was subsequently reprinted five times from 1792 to 1836. In 1793 he was interrogated by the Austrian police as suspect of 236:, then a prospering city with a large expatriate merchant class and a major cultural center of the Ottoman Greek world. There he became the director of the city's most renowned school, the 634: 592: 550: 205: 259:(Καλοκινήματα). Psalidas had become one of the most distinguished personalities of city of Ioannina. He participated in local courts, councils and was also adviser to 856: 522: 571: 620: 564: 529: 907: 585: 515: 426: 746: 953: 247:
Psalidas had also to deal with conservative circles, who distrusted and bitterly criticized his innovations and promotion of the "atheist" ideas of
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When young, Psalidas adopted an archaist Greek language, but when by the time he had become "the most prominent teacher in Ioannina" he used
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During his studies, Psalidas worked in several Greek editorial companies and printing houses that were established in
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Greeks in Russian military service in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
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Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization). Journal of the History of Ideas, Inc., 1960.
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Psalidas Ath. "Vera Felicitas - Αληθής Ευδαιμονία", Wien, 1791, vol. 1
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George Patrick Henderson. State University of New York Press, 1970.
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author, scholar and one of the most renowned figures of the
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Gregory Jusdanis. Princeton University Press, 2001.
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Ioannina
Epirus
Lefkada
Greek
novelist
essayist
philosopher
Efimeris
Greek
Greek
modern Greek Enlightenment
Ioannina
Russian Empire
Ukraine
Poltava
Slavic Poltava Seminary
Austria
Vienna
Ephimeris
Greek
Cypriot
Ioannis Karatzas
liberal
French revolutionist
Ottoman-ruled Greece
Ioannina
Maroutsaia School
Kaplaneios
Voltaire

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