Daniel Philippidis

Filippidis Daniil (Greek Δανιήλ Φιλιππίδης Daniel or Phil ( l) ippides, * 1750 in Milies, † 1832 in Bessarabia ) was a Greek scholar. He is considered the protagonist of the Greek Enlightenment and was a member of Filiki Eteria.

Life

Filippidis ' family came from Euboea and settled in Milies. He became a monk and began studying at Mount Athos ( Athonite School ), which he continued in Chios and Bucharest. 1790 appeared his work on the geography Geografia neoteriki in Vienna. From 1790 to 1794 he lived in Paris, where he taught courses in mathematics and natural sciences. In 1794 he returned to Milies and then went to Constantinople Opel. There he lost in a fire all his belongings, as well as the unfinished manuscript of the second volume of the geography. He left the city and moved to Constanta.

From 1810 to 1818, he traveled to several European cities: Paris, Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna and Leipzig, where he stayed two years. During this time Filippidis wrote the "History of Roumounias " (Leipzig, 1816). He also translated six scientific works in the Greek language, of which four were printed. From mathematics and the natural sciences, he turned more and more to philosophy and was heavily influenced by Kant.