Nicholas Kalliakis
Greek scholar and philosopher (1645–1707)
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Nicholas Kalliakis (Greek: Νικόλαος Καλλιάκης, Nikolaos Kalliakis;[1] Latin: Nicolaus Calliachius; Italian: Niccolò Calliachi; c. 1645[2] - 8 May 1707) was a Cretan Greek[3] scholar and philosopher who flourished in Italy in the 17th century. He was appointed doctor of philosophy and theology in Rome,[4] university professor of Greek and Latin[5] and Aristotelian philosophy[6] at Venice in 1666 and professor of belles-lettres[7] and rhetoric[8] at Padua in 1667.
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| Born | Nicholas Kalliakis (Νικόλαος Καλιάκης) 1645 |
| Died | 1707 (aged 61–62) |
| Occupations | Philosophy, Greek literature |
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Movement | Italian Renaissance |
Biography
Nicholas Kalliakis was born of Greek ancestry[9][10][11][12][13] in Candia, Crete which was under control of Venice (present-day Greece) in 1645.[14] He migrated to Rome where he stayed for ten years, becoming one of the outstanding teachers of Greek and Latin,[15] he was ultimately made doctor of philosophy and theology.[16] He moved to Venice in 1666 where he was appointed professor of Aristotelian philosophy[17] and of the Greek and Latin languages.[18] He was appointed Director of the Greek college (the Collegio Flangini) in Venice from 1665 to 1676.[19] In 1677 Nicholas Kalliakis was invited to Padua and took the chair of professor of the belles-lettres[20] and of philosophy and rhetoric.[21] He wrote treatises on the antiquities of Greece and Rome and studied the dance in classical antiquity, his principal work is the De ludis scenicis mimorum et pantomimorum syntagma.[22] He remained in Padua until 1707 where he died.[23]