Anthimos Gazis

Anthimos Gazis

Anthimos Gazis (or Gazes; Ἄνθιμος Γαζῆς; 1758 in Milies – 1828 in Ermoupoli, Syros) was a Greek scholar, philosopher during the Greek Enlightenment, cartographer and one of the heroes of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Milies (Thessalia) in Ottoman Greece in 1758 and died in 1828. His real name was Anastasios Gazalis (Ἀναστάσιος Γκάζαλης).

Biography

Gazis studied in Greece and then he went to Constantinople where he was ordained a priest. He became rector of the Greek Church of Vienna in 1797. In 1811 he received his Diploma from the “Philological Institute of Bucharest”. In 1813 Gazis was elected a Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His efforts were concentrated to the development of a higher education system in Greece.

He was the editor of the very first periodical in Greek, Hermes o Logios, published in Vienna. In 1799, he translated and published Benjamin Martin’s “Philosophical Grammar”.

Gazis published in 1800 Vienna a map of Greece and the Balkans called Pinax Geographikos tes Hellados (Πίναξ Γεωγραφικὸς τῆς Ἑλλάδος). It is a reduced edition of the famous map of Rigas Feraios (the Charta of Greece). He edited also a worldmap called Atlas e Chartes [...] hydrogeiou...,^[1][2] owned today by the National Library of Australia.

In 1821, he was the main figure of the Insurrection of Thessalia against the Ottomans; after the rapid defeat of the insurgents in Thessalia and the invasion of the Pelion by Mahmud Dramali Pasha in the summer, he had to flee to the Sporades islands. He was a member of the Areopagus of Eastern Continental Greece from November 1821.

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External links

• Pinax Geographikos tes Hellados
• Teca Digitale Ricerca – Home

Modern Greek Enlightenment
Publications	Geographia Neoteriki Hellenic Nomarchy Ephimeris Hermes o Logios
Academies	Ottoman Empire: Athonite Academy Evangelical School Kaplaneios Maroutsaia New Academy Phanar Greek Orthodox College Phrontisterion of Trapezous Diaspora: Flanginian School Princely Academy of Bucharest Princely Academy of Iaşi
Representatives	Cosmas of Aetolia Methodios Anthrakites Kosmas Balanos Athanasios Christopoulos Neophytos Doukas Theoklitos Farmakidis Rigas Feraios Anthimos Gazis Theophilos Kairis Dimitrios Katartzis Theodore Kavalliotis Grigorios Konstantas Adamantios Korais Veniamin Lesvios Iosipos Moisiodax Daniel Philippidis Athanasios Psalidas Athanasios Stageiritis Nikephoros Theotokis Balanos Vasilopoulos Eugenios Voulgaris