Matthaios K. Paranikas ( el, Ματθαίος Παρανίκας; 1832–1914) was a

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scholar, philologist teacher and writer of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Biography

Paranikas was born in 1832 in

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. He successfully graduated from the

Zosimaia School The ''Zosimaia'' School ( el, Ζωσιμαία Σχολή, ''Zosimaía Scholí'') of Ioannina (in Epirus) has been one of the most significant Greek middle-level educational institutions (high schools) during the last period of Ottoman rule in th ...

of Ioannina, the ''Philolosophical School'' of the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

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

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including the ''Zappeion Greek girls' school of

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'',

Theological School of Halki The Halki seminary, formally the Theological School of Halki ( el, Θεολογική Σχολή Χάλκης and tr, Ortodoks Ruhban Okulu), was founded on 1 October 1844 on the island of Halki ( Turkish: Heybeliada), the second-largest of the ...

and in

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. He served as a headmaster in schools of

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, Adrianople and the famous Evangelical School of Smyrna (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 Ecumenical Patriarchate. Phrontisterion of Trapezous Graduates with their headmaster, 1903

Phrontisterion of Trapezous Graduates with their headmaster, 1903

He served as a headmaster of the

Phrontisterion of Trapezous The Phrontisterion of Trapezous ( el, Φροντιστήριο Τραπεζούντος, "Trapezous College") was a Greek educational institution that operated from 1682/3 to 1921 in Trabzon (Gr. Τραπεζούς, ''Trapezous''), in the Ottoman ...

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

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

, 1885

References

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