Sevastos Kiminitis or Sebastos Kyminites () (1630-1703) was a

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scholar who was born in a village close to Τrebizond,

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. He was principal of the

Patriarchal Academy Phanar Greek Orthodox College or Phanar Roman Orthodox Lyceum (), known in Greek as the Great School of the Nation and Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople (, ''Megáli toú Genous Scholí''), is the oldest surviving and most prestigious Greek Or ...

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in the years 1671–1682. He left

in 1682 and moved to Τrebizond where he founded a

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school, known as

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. Around 1689 he moved to

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to become principal of the

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. He died there in 1703.

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Sevastos Kiminitis
1630 births 1703 deaths Greek schoolteachers Ottoman Pontians 17th-century scholars from the Ottoman Empire People from Trabzon Greek scholars Immigrants to the Principality of Wallachia Founders of academic institutions 17th-century Greek writers 17th-century Greek educators 17th-century Greek philosophers 17th-century people from the Principality of Wallachia {{Greece-bio-stub