Dionysios Pyrrhos the Thessalian (

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: Διονύσιος Πύρρος ο Θετταλός; 1774 or 1777,

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– 12 February 1853,

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), was a monk, doctor, writer and publisher.

Biography

Dionysios Pyrrhos was a monk from

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. He studied in

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and Kydonies under and Benjamin of Lesbos. He then studied medicine in

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, and when he returned he taught philosophy and sciences in

. After the

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he returned to Athens again devoting himself to writing and practicing medicine. Apart from writing he also created maps and

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and

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. He also attempted to create a paper mill, but he failed. He set up a

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place in Athens. He estimated the amount of the books he had printed to be about 25,000 volumes, covering a range of subjects: medicine, geography, history, morality, grammar. He died on 13 February 1853. Konstantinos Dimaras, "Dionysios Pyrrhos", in: K. Th. Dimaras, Composite I From education to literature, (edit. Alexis Politis), Seminary of New Hellenism, Athens, 2000, p. 154

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Yanis Kordatos Yanis Kordatos (; 1 February 1891 – 29 April 1961) was a Greek Marxist historian, sociologist and politician. Kordatos wrote over twenty historical works dealing with Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek history. Some of his most notable books ...

, History of Modern Greece, Volume 12. * , "Dionysios Pyrrhos", in: K. Th. Dimaras, Composite I From education to literature, (edit. Alexis Politis), Seminary of New Hellenism, Athens, 2000, pp. 154–155 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pyrrhos, Dionysios 1774 births People from Trikala (regional unit) 1853 deaths People of the Modern Greek Enlightenment Greek people of the Greek War of Independence Greek Christian monks Archimandrites 19th-century Greek educators 19th-century Greek physicians Greek publishers (people) 19th-century Greek mathematicians 19th-century Greek philosophers Greek cartographers 19th-century Greek historians Medical educators University of Pavia alumni 19th-century Greek scientists 18th-century Greek scientists 18th-century Greek educators