Theoklitos Farmakidis

Theoklitos Farmakidis (Greek Θεόκλητος Φαρμακίδης, also Theoklitos Pharmakidis, civil: Theocharis Farmakidis; born January 15, 1784 in Nimbegler ( Nikea, Thessaly ), † April 26, 1860 in Athens ) was a Greek theologian and author and freedom fighter of the Greek Revolution.

Theoklitos Farmakidis went to his home village and in Larisa to school. In 1802 he was ordained a deacon of the Greek Orthodox Church and was named Theoklitos. He studied theology at the Phanar Greek Orthodox College in Istanbul (1804-1806), at the Academy in Jassy, the capital of the Principality of Moldavia (1806-1811) and in Bucharest, where he was ordained a priest in 1811. Subsequently he was pastor until 1818 the Greek community of Agios Georgios in Vienna. Here he learned Latin, French and German and was with Anthimos Gazis the magazine Logios Hermes out, a mouthpiece of the positions of Adamantios Korai. He was a member of the Filiki Eteria. The Philhellene Lord Guilford took over the cost of his further studies at the University of Göttingen.

At the start of the Greek Revolution in May 1821 he arrived in Greece, stayed briefly in Spetses and in the camp of the rebels at Vervena and gave in Kalamata, the magazine "Greek trumpet " out, first published on Greek soil Greek periodical. As management expert and politician, he was involved in building the new state. He was a member of the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. In 1823 he was appointed professor of dogmatic theology at the Ionian Academy in Corfu. In 1825 he returned to the Peloponnese in Nafplio and became editor of the " Allgemeine Zeitung of Greece", the later Greek Official Journal of the Government.

He fought the Prime Minister Ioannis Kapodistrias, whom he regarded as the trustee of Russian politics. The censors saw an article in a personal defamation of the governor, for this reason Farmakidis was provided for one year under house arrest. Then he went to Hydra. After the assassination of Kapodistrias Farmakidis 1832 was appointed head of a school in Egina.

For Georg Ludwig von Maurer, who was I. Member Council of Regency during the minority of the young King Otto, Farmakidis worked as an important adviser in ecclesiastical matters. At the instigation of Farmakidis told a synod, established by royal decree in 1833 by then the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel under -standing Orthodox Church of Greece autocephalous. It was his concern not to make the free Greek state depends on a patriarch, was the prisoner of the Turkish sultan. As mighty secretary of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, he drove in 1833 the independence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in violent clashes with the "Russian party" ahead, advocated the unity of the Church. His view that the Bible should be written in simple Greek, in order to achieve wider social strata, brought him into conflict with the same conservative circles.

The heavily influenced by Western European ideas politically liberal set Farmakidis was in the Greek language question a strong supporter of Adamantios Korai, the propagated as Katharevousa balance between vernacular and high-level language.

1837 Farmakidis became a full professor of theology at the newly founded University of Athens.