13 Facts About Eugenios Voulgaris

Eugenios Voulgaris or Boulgaris was a Greek Orthodox cleric, author, educator, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher.

Eugenios Voulgaris wrote about every discipline: legal, historical, theological, grammatical, linguistic, astronomy, political, mathematics, archaeology, music, secularism, euthanasia, and the tides.

Eugenios Voulgaris wrote speeches, poems, appeals to Catherine II for the liberation of Greece, and hundreds of letters.

Eugenios Voulgaris edited valuable editions of Byzantine writers and classical books and translated many texts from Latin into French.

Eugenios Voulgaris was one of the students of Methodios Anthrakites.

Eugenios Voulgaris translated many important foreign language academic documents to Greek.

Eugenios Voulgaris was a leading contributor to the Modern Greek Enlightenment.

Eugenios Voulgaris studied in Corfu under Vikentios Damodos, a scholar, and continued his studies in the School of Ioannina under Athanasios Psalidas.

From 1753 to 1759 Eugenios Voulgaris was director of the Athonite Academy at Vatopedi Monastery aiming at upgrading the level of studies.

Eugenios Voulgaris was eventually forced to abandon the school in the beginning of 1759.

In 1779, Eugenios Voulgaris retired, although he continued to live in the same monastery in Poltava, while Nicephoros took over the diocese.

Eugenios Voulgaris died on 12 June 1806, and was buried in the Lavra's Feodorovskaya Church.

Eugenios Voulgaris presented his views in the form of a consoling sermon, enriched with references to classical texts, the Bible and the Church Fathers, as well as to secular sources, including statistics from contemporary Britain and France.