Kosmas Thesprotos

Kosmas Thesprotos or Kosmas o Thesprotos (Greek: Κοσμάς ο Θεσπρωτός Kosmas the Thesprotian, 1780–1852) was a Greek[1] scholar and theologian.

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Life

Kosmas was born in the village of Jergucat,[2] Dropull region in modern southern Albania, then Ottoman Empire. In 1805 he became a priest. The following years he became a student of Athanasios Psalidas, a major figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment and graduated from the Kaplaneios School of Ioannina at 1815.[3] He taught in several schools in Epirus region and after the successful Greek War of Independence (1821–1830) he moved to Athens were continued his educational activity. He died in Karpenisi, at 1852.[2]

Works

One of his famous works was the Γεωγραφία Αλβανίας και Ηπείρου (Geography of Albania and Epirus), composed together with his teacher Psalidas. It was a geographical treatise which describes geographically Albania and Epirus.[4] Kosmas in this work adopted the notion of Psalidas that placed the geographical border between Epirus and Albania along the river Vjose (Aoos).[5] This work was completed after his graduation from the Kaplaneios, when he worked as a teacher in various Greek schools in Epirus.[3] He also wrote the following works:

References

  1. ^ Κοσμάς Θεσπρωτός . Κάτοπτρο Ελληνικής Επιστήμης και Φιλοσοφίας.
  2. ^ a b Kosmas Thesprotos culture.ana.gr.
  3. ^ a b A.C. Papacharisis, 1964, Balkan studies: biannual publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies., Vol. 5-6, 1964, p. 413
  4. ^ Dean J. Kostantaras. Infamy and revolt: the rise of the national problem in early modern Greek thought. East European Monographs, 2006, ISBN 9780880335812, p. 60
  5. ^ Mikropoulos, Tassos A. (2008). Elevating and Safeguarding Culture Using Tools of the Information Society: Dusty traces of the Muslim culture. Earthlab. pp. 321. ISBN 9789602331873. http://books.google.com/?id=optXTg3ovBYC&q=moschopolis#v=snippet&q=moschopolis. 

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