1. Methodios Anthrakites was a Greek Orthodox cleric, author, educator, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher.
27 Facts About Methodios Anthrakites
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Methodios Anthrakites directed the Gioumeios and Epiphaneios Schools in Ioannina.
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Methodios Anthrakites supported the use of the people's language in education instead of archaic forms of Greek.
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Methodios Anthrakites is known for being persecuted for introducing modern philosophical thought to Greek education, the incident is widely known as the Methodios Affair.
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Methodios Anthrakites made a significant contribution to the growth of the Modern Greek Enlightenment during the Ottoman occupation of Greece.
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Methodios Anthrakites studied in the Gioumeios School in Ioannina under Georgios Sougdouris.
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Methodios Anthrakites's stay in Venice lasted until 1708, he was a priest at San Giorgio dei Greci.
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Methodios Anthrakites was associated with Meletius Tipaldi a former Greek Orthodox convert to Roman Catholicism living in Venice.
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Methodios Anthrakites urged Methodios to publish three of his works at the printing house of Nikolaos Glykis.
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Methodios Anthrakites returned to Greece in 1708 and become the first director of the Ierospoudasterion, a new school founded in Kastoria in Macedonia.
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Methodios Anthrakites taught micrometry, altitude, surface metering, geodesy, iconography, choreography, stereometry, holometry, and sometimes trigonometry.
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Methodios Anthrakites taught the study of spheres, astrolabe, geography, and optics.
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Methodios Anthrakites was an educational pioneer and became extremely popular very fast.
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Methodios Anthrakites tried to break barriers and teach modern European philosophy and logic.
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Methodios Anthrakites tried to focus on the new teachings of Descartes and Malebranche while new philosophical doctrines were suspect across Europe and banned in some countries.
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Methodios Anthrakites used unconventional teaching methods of which the church became very suspicious.
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Methodios Anthrakites was eventually involved in the Methodios affair as Galileo faced the inquisition for Heliocentrism.
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Methodios Anthrakites's teachings were regarded as unusual and gave rise to suspicion in church circles they began questioning his teaching methods at the school.
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Methodios Anthrakites resigned from the Ierospoudasterion in 1718 and moved to Siatista, then to Macedonia, where he taught for another two years.
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Methodios Anthrakites was associated with a powerful wealthy community but they could not help him against the slander.
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Methodios Anthrakites returned to Kastoria and in 1723 appeared before the bishop of Achris Ioasaph to defend his Christian faith.
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Methodios Anthrakites's books reflected his thoughts on geometry, logic, physics, euclidean arithmetic, and philosophy.
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Methodios Anthrakites was restored as a teacher but he was only allowed to follow Korydalism.
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The Methodios Anthrakites affair led Greece into the Modern Greek Enlightenment.
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Methodios Anthrakites taught the physics and mathematics of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton.
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Methodios Anthrakites explored the philosophers John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes.
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Methodios Anthrakites did not receive the same harsh persecution as Methodios.