Eugenios Voulgaris | |
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| Archbishop of Cherson | |
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| Born | 1716 |
| Died | 1806 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Eugenios Voulgaris or Boulgaris[1] (Greek: Εὐγένιος Βούλγαρης; Russian: Евгений Вулгарский, Евгений Вулгар; 1716–1806) was a Greek Orthodox cleric, author, educator, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher. He wrote about every discipline: legal, historical, theological, grammatical, linguistic, astronomy, political, mathematics, archaeology, music, secularism, euthanasia, and the tides. He wrote speeches, poems, appeals to Catherine II for the liberation of Greece, and hundreds of letters. He edited valuable editions of Byzantine writers and classical books and translated many texts from Latin into French. He was one of the students of Methodios Anthrakites. He translated many important foreign language academic documents to Greek. He was bishop of Cherson (in Crimea). He was a leading contributor to the Modern Greek Enlightenment.[2]
- ^ Department of History of the Ionian University is organizing an International Conference under the title: “Eugenios Boulgaris: The Man and his Works”
- ^ M. Patiniotis V. Spyropoulou (14 May 2021). "Eugenios Voulgaris". Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens. Retrieved 14 May 2021.