Georgios Gennadios

Georgios Gennadios (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεννάδιος, 1784–1854) was a Greek man of letters who was instrumental in the founding of some of the first educational establishments of modern Greece, considered among the most important personalities of the Greek Enlightenment (Diafotismos), often referred to as the "Teacher of the Nation" (Διδάσκαλος του Γένους).

Gennadios was born in 1784 in Doliana, a village in the Zagori region of Epirus, or according to another view in 1786 in Selymbria in Thrace, where his Epirotan parents went to live for a period. He started his studies in his home village in Doliana and possibly also in Monodendri. He continued his studies in the schools of Ioannina and subsequently in Bucharest (Wallachia). In 1804 he began to study philology at the University of Leipzig under Wilhelm Ernst Weber. He returned to Bucharest upon completion of his studies in 1814.

At 1815 he became an assistant to Neophytos Doukas, then at the Princely Academy of Bucharest. In 1817–20 he went to Odessa, following an invitation by the city’s Greek community and by Ioannis Kapodistrias, then Russia's foreign minister, where he helped to found and direct the Greek School of Commerce. In 1820 he returned to Bucharest following an invitation by Prince Alexandros Soutzos of Wallachia and taught in the city’s schools. That year he also became a member of the Filiki Eteria revolutionary organization. Following the defeat of Alexandros Ypsilantis in 1821 he went to Odessa and from there to Dresden. He returned to Greece in 1826 to take part in the Greek War of Independence.

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