Ioannis Kottounios
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Ioannis Kottounios, (Greek: Ιωάννης Κοττούνιος) was an eminent Greek scholar.
He was born in Veroia in 1572. He was a student at the Greek college of Ayios Athanasios in Rome (1605-1613). He studied medicine, Greek literature, theology and philosophy at Italian universities. He taught at the universities of Padua, Bologna and Pisa, where he became particularly well known. A student of the renowned Italian philosopher Cesare Cremonini and his successor to the chair of philosophy at Padua. In 1653 he founded the Kottounian Hellinomouseio (a boarding school for Greek boys). He was a friend of Mart. Krousios, Leo Allatius and other personalities of his time. An eminent scholar and commentator on the works of Aristotle. He died in Padua, in 1657.
