Matthaios K. Paranikas (; 1832–1914) was an ethnically

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scholar, philologist teacher and writer of the 19th and early 20th centuries who was born in and a national of the

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Biography

Paranikas was born in 1832 in Vitsa of

Zagori Zagori (; ), is a region, a municipality, and a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Asprangeloi. It has an area of some and contains 46 v ...

. He successfully graduated from the

Zosimaia School The Zosimaia School () is a Greek middle-level educational institution of Ioannina (in Epirus). It was significant during the last period of Ottoman rule in the region (1828–1913). The ''Zosimaia'' was founded at 1828 through the personal expen ...

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, the ''Philolosophical School'' of the

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and finished his studies in the

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where he got the Philosophy Teacher degree. From then he became a teacher in many Greek schools of the

including the ''Zappeion Greek girls' school of

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'',

Theological School of Halki The Halki seminary, formally the Theological School of Halki ( and ), was founded on 1 October 1844 on the island of Halki ( Turkish: Heybeliada), the second-largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara. It was the main school of theol ...

and in Madytos. He served as a headmaster in schools of

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and the famous

Evangelical School of Smyrna The Evangelical School ( officially Ἡ ἐν Σμύρνῃ Εὐαγγελική Σχολή) was a Greek educational institution established in 1733 in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, now İzmir, Turkey. The school, initially an Orthodox Church-approved ...

(1878-1885). He was an early member of the ''Greek Phlilological Society of Constantinople'' (''Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος'') since 1863 when it was established just in 1861. There he made many historical and philological researches, of which many of them were published in the philological magazine of the society, in the

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philological magazines ''Parnassos'' and ''Pandora'' but as well as in the ''Ecclesiastical Truth'' magazine of the

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. He served as a headmaster of the

Phrontisterion of Trapezous The Phrontisterion of Trapezous (, "Trapezous College") was a Greek educational institution that operated from 1682/3 to 1921 in Trabzon (Gr. Τραπεζούς, ''Trapezous''), in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey. It provided a major impetus for t ...

in the periods of 1895-96 and 1903–04, when he retired. He died in 1914 at the age of 71 or 72.Διευθυντές του Φροντιστηρίου Τραπεζούντας
27 July 2019, santeos.blogspot.comΦροντιστηριο Τραπεζουντας (1900-1914)
Διευθυντές του Φροντιστηρίου, 24 March 2013, mnimes.org

Selected writings

''Σχεδίασμα περί της εν τω ελληνικώ έθνει καταστάσεως των γραμμάτων από Αλώσεως Κωνσταντινουπόλεως (1453 μ.Χ.) μέχρι των αρχών της ενεστώσης (ΙΘ') εκατονταετηρίδος''

, 1867
''Anthologia graeca carminum christianorum''

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, 1871 (in Latin) *Περιήγησις Ανδρέου Λιβαδηνού, 1873
''Ιστορία της Ευαγγελικής Σχόλης Σμύρνης''
istory of the Evangelical School of Smyrna

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, 1885

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paranikas, Matthaios 1832 births 1912 deaths Schoolteachers from the Ottoman Empire 20th-century scholars from the Ottoman Empire Zosimaia School alumni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Greeks from the Ottoman Empire Greek philologists People from Zagori