One of the flags used in Thessaly during the Greek War of Independence ( designed by Anthimos Gazis ).

Educated and influential members of the large Greek diaspora, such as Adamantios Korais and Anthimos Gazis, tried to transmit these ideas back to the Greeks, with the double aim of raising their educational level and simultaneously strengthening their national identity.

* Anthimos Gazis ( 1758 – 1828 ), a hero of the Greek War of Independence

During the course of its history, the academy has had numerous famous members including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Grimm brothers, Theodor Mommsen, Anthimos Gazis, Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, Kurt Sethe, Max Planck, Otto Hahn, Albert Einstein, Max Weber, Werner Heisenberg and Adolf Butenandt.

Anthimus, also spelled Anthimos, Anthinos or Anthinus, is a Greek name for males.

Michael and Basiliskian were insensibly drunk following a banquet at the palace of Anthimos when Basil, with a small group of companions ( including his father Bardas, brother Marinos, and cousin Ayleon ), gained entry.

Outstanding personalities of the village of Emba include the Bishop Anthimos of Irinoupolis ( situated then in the Middle East ) who was born at the village of Emba and died in 1791, Nikolas Solomonides who was the private secretary of the Dragoman of Cyprus Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios, but also a poet and an intellectual, his brother Andreas Solomonides who was a nobleman and was employed at the Ottoman Court ( seraglio ) in Nicosia and thus saved the church of Emba from being destroyed by the Ottomans, but also the villagers of Emba from paying taxes to them after 1821.

His chief rivals in ballot were Metropolitan Anthimos of Alexandroupolis and Metropolitan Ieronymos of Thebes.

He has also collaborated with Pyx Lax, Bruce Springsteen, Jethro Tull, Emma Shapplin, Goran Bregovic, Apostolis Anthimos, Dulce Pontes, Andriana Babali and many others.

Theodorus Gaza or Theodore Gazis ( c. 1398 – c. 1475 ) ( Greek: Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς, Theodoros Gazis ; Italian: Teodoro Gaza ; Latin: Theodorus Gazes, gen .: Theodori Gazae ), also called by the epithet Thessalonicensis ( in Latin ) and Thessalonikeus ( in Greek ), was a Greek humanist and translator of Aristotle, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century ( the Palaeologan Renaissance ).

* " Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280 – 1808.

1: Empire of Gazis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In an inscription of 1337 the building of the Bursa, Turkey | Bursa mosque, Orhan, second ruler of the Ottoman line, describes himself as " Sultan, son of the Sultan of the Gazis, Gazi son of Gazi … frontier lord of the horizons.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

The Greek scholar Heron of Alexandria created the earliest known automatic door in the 1st century CE during the era of Roman Egypt.

According to Jesuit scholar Joseph Fitzmyer, the book, " overwhelms the reader by the density and sublimity of the topic with which it deals, the gospel of the justification and salvation of Jew and Greek alike by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, revealing the uprightness and love of God the father.

Greek scholar Aristotle realized that fossil seashells from rocks were similar to those found on the beach, indicating the fossils were once living animals.

As a comparative grammarian he was much more than as a Sanskrit scholar ,” and yet “ it is surely much that he made the grammar, formerly a maze of Indian subtilty, as simple and attractive as that of Greek or Latin, introduced the study of the easier works of Sanskrit literature and trained ( personally or by his books ) pupils who could advance far higher, invade even the most intricate parts of the literature and make the Vedas intelligible.

A scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, " Nevertheless, there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos.

Jerome was a scholar at a time when that statement implied a fluency in Greek.

However, scholar Helmut Koester has pointed out the Greek title " Memorabilia " was not applied to Xenophon's work until the Middle Ages, and it is more likely apomnemoneumata was used to describe the oral transmission of the sayings of Jesus in early Christianity.

Origen (; Greek: Ōrigénēs ), or Origen Adamantius ( 184 / 185 – 253 / 254 ), was a scholar and theologian of early Christian interest in Alexandria, and one of the writers regarding the early Church.

A 2nd century AD manuscript by the Greek physician and gynecologist Soranus of Ephesus dealt with neonatal pediatrics ; the Persian scholar and doctor al-Razi ( 865 – 925 ) published a short treatise on diseases among children.

In order to put an end to the marked divergences in the western texts of that period, Damasus encouraged the highly respected scholar to revise the available Old Latin versions of the Bible into a more accurate Latin on the basis of the Greek New Testament and the Septuagint, resulting in the Vulgate.

Pius was not an eminent scholar: his Latin is frequently incorrect, and he knew little Greek, but his writings have high literary qualities.

In 1824, the Classical scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne promised to prepare a new literal translation of the Greek text for Champollion's use ; Champollion promised in return an analysis of all the points at which the three texts seemed to differ.

:" As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension ; and satura ( which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms ) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “ satyr ” ( satyros ) and its derivatives.

The first clear mention of a sunspot in Western literature, around 300 BC, was by the ancient Greek scholar Theophrastus, student of Plato and Aristotle and successor to the latter.

After World War II, Classical scholar Jacqueline de Romilly pointed out that the problem of Athenian imperialism was one of Thucydides ' central preoccupations and situated his history in the context of Greek thinking about international politics.

* Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier ( b. c. 1453 )

* Didymus Chalcenterus, Greek scholar and grammarian ( b. c. 63 BC )

* Theophilus of Edessa, Greek astrologer and scholar

** Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar ( d. 1833 )

Plutarch, a Greek scholar who lived from 46 CE to 120 CE, wrote Isis and Osiris, which is considered a main source about the very late myths about Isis.

Before entering politics, he had been a classical scholar, becoming a full Professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

In accordance with the Greek theorists, the Muslims considered Aristotle to be a dogmatic philosopher, the author of a closed system, and believed that Aristotle shared with Plato essential tenets of thought.

They include Protagoras, a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher,

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

Ammonius Hermiae (; c. 440-c. 520 ) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

Anaxagoras (, " lord of the assembly "; c. 500 – 428 BC ) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

Anaxarchus (; ; c. 380-c. 320 BC ) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus.

Anaximenes () of Miletus ( b. 585 BCE, d. 528 BCE ) was an Archaic Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher active in the latter half of the 6th century BC .< ref name =" lindberg28 "> Lindberg, David C. “ The Greeks and the Cosmos .” < u > The Beginnings of Western Science </ u >.

c. 60 BC ) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the eleventh scholarch of the Peripatetic school.

* Andronicus of Rhodes ( c. 70 BC ), Greek philosopher

* The Characters, a book by the Greek philosopher Theophrastus

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

* A Greek philosopher

Plato was the Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician and writer of philosophical dialogues who founded the Academy in Athens which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

The word is a compound from two Greek terms, ἢλεκτρον, ēlektron, " amber " ( as electrostatic phenomena were first described as properties of amber by the philosopher Thales ), and μαγνήτης, magnētēs, " magnet " ( the magnetic stones found in antiquity in the vicinity of the Greek city of Magnesia, in Lydia, Asia Minor ).

As reported by the ancient Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus around 600 BC, charge ( or electricity ) could be accumulated by rubbing fur on various substances, such as amber.

In the book " Pythagoras: Greek philosopher " it states ; " Nazaratus, the Assyrian, one of Pythagoras ' masters, was supposed to be the prophet Ezekiel, and Thomas Stanley's Life of Pythagoras says that Ezekiel and Pythagoras flourished together.

Epicurus (, " ally, comrade "; 341 BC – 270 BC ) was an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.

Epicurus the Sage is a two-part comic book by William Messner-Loebs and Sam Kieth portraying Epicurus as " the only sane philosopher " by anachronistically bringing him together with many other well-known Greek philosophers.

In Rabbinic literature the term Epikoros is used, without a specific reference to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, yet it seems apparent that the term was derived from his name.