Theophilos Corydalleus

Theophilos Corydalleus (1574 to 1646) was a Greek Neo-Aristotelian philosopher, Orthodox cleric, physician and teacher who began the movement known as Corydalism. Born in Korydallos in Attica, he studied at the Greek college of Saint Athanasius in Rome and took his doctorate in medicine and philosophy at Padua in 1613, where he met the Aristotelian Cesare Cremonini. He taught Italian, Greek and Latin in Venice, Athens, Cephalonia and Zakynthos, and directed the Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople on several occasions at the invitation of Patriarch Cyril Lucaris. There he reorganized the curriculum on Neo-Aristotelian lines, separating philosophy from theology and bringing science back into Orthodox schools. His thought shaped Greek education for roughly two hundred years.